Education
Charles University in Prague.
educationist historian librettist literary critic musicologist university professor writer
Charles University in Prague.
He is known primarily for his support of composer Bedřich Smetana and his contributions to Czechoslovakian aesthetic theory, which influenced many cultural figures in early twentieth-century Prague, including Zdeněk Nejedlý, Otakar Zich, and Vladimír Helfert. He also wrote the opera librettos to Zdeněk Fibich"s masterpiece, The Bride of Messina, and Josef Rozkosný"s Cinderella.