Brněnec is a municipality and village in Svitavy District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,300 inhabitants.
Moravian Wallachia is a mountainous ethnoregion located in the easternmost part of Moravia in the Czech Republic, near the Slovak border, roughly centered on the cities Vsetín, Valašské Meziříčí and Rožnov pod Radhoštěm. The name Wallachia used to be applied to all the highlands of Moravia and the neighboring Silesia, although in the 19th century a smaller area came to be defined as ethno-cultural Moravian Wallachia. The traditional dialect represents a mixture of elements from the Czech and Slovak languages, and has a distinct lexicon of Romanian origin relating to the pastoral economy of the highlands. The name originated from the term "Vlach", the exonym of Romanians.
Zelenka is a Czech and Slovak surname. The name stems from the adjective "zelený" (green). Notable people with the surname include:
František Straka is a Czech former football player and current manager.
The Prague Conservatory is a public music school in Prague, Czech Republic, founded in 1808. Currently, the school offers four- or six-year courses, which can be compared to the level of a high school diploma in other countries. Graduates can continue their training by enrolling in an institution that offers undergraduate education.
Pokorný is a Czech or Slovak surname, meaning "the humble one". Notable people with the surname include:
Antonin, Antonín, and Antoñín are masculine given names. Antonín, a Czech name in use in the Czech Republic, and Antonin, a French name in use in France, and French-speaking countries, are both considered alternate forms of Antonino. Antoñín, a Spanish name in use in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, is a diminutive form of Antonio. As a surname it is derived from the Antonius root name. Notable people with these names include:
František is a masculine given name of Czech origin. It is a cognate of Francis, Francisco, François, and Franz. People with the name include:
Moravec is a Czech surname. "Morava" (Moravia) is the root of the surname. It may refer to:
František Bartoš was a Czechoslovakian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He enjoyed his best season as a rider for the ČZ factory racing team in 1957, when he finished the season in ninth place in the 125cc world championship.
František Bartoš was a Moravian ethnomusicologist, folklorist, folksong collector, and dialectologist. He is viewed as the successor of František Sušil, the pioneer of Moravian ethnomusicology. He notably organized the collecting, categorizing and editing of hundreds of Moravian folksongs which were published is a four volume collection along with about 4000 folksongs from other ethnic traditions. The folksongs appear in ethnographic monographs and the work as a whole is viewed as one of the most important folk song collections ever published. However, Bartoš, like many other early European folk music scholars, sometimes changed the texts of the folk songs, thereby reducing the documentary value of the work.
Zdeněk is a Czech given name derived from the Latin name Sidonius. Jan Svoboda (linguist) contested the relation with the Latin name, and an alternative etymology is a diminutive of Zdeslav.
Kopřiva is a Czech surname meaning "nettle". Notable people with the surname include:
Slavik is a surname and given name. In Czech and Slovak, it means "nightingale". In other countries, it is sometimes a diminutive of Vyacheslav or similar given names.
Bartoš is a Czech and Slovak surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Gymnázium třída Kapitána Jaroše is a public gymnasium in Brno, Czech Republic.
František Bartoš was a Czech composer, music critic, musicologist and writer. He studied music composition with Karel Boleslav Jirák and Jaroslav Křička at the Prague Conservatory from 1921 through 1925. After this he participated in multiple masterclasses with the composer Josef Bohuslav Foerster. He wrote music criticism for Tempo magazine from 1935 to 1938 and again from 1946 to 1948. As a musicologist he published several scholarly works on Bedřich Smetana, and also wrote on other Czech composers and on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As a composer his best known works are String Quartet no.2, op.10 (1935), the orchestral suite Měšťák šlechticem (1937), and Rozhlasová hudba for orchestra (1938).
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