Jaroslav Kvapil
Playwright, Author
1868 – 1950
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Who was Jaroslav Kvapil?
Jaroslav Kvapil was a Czech poet, playwright, and librettist. From 1900 he was a director and Dramaturg at the National Theatre in Prague, where he introduced plays by Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen and Maxim Gorky into the repertory. Later he was a director at the Vinohrady Theatre. He wrote six plays, but is today chiefly remembered as the librettist of Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka.
Kvapil was the principal author of the Manifesto of Czech writers of 1917, signed by over two hundred leading Czechs, favouring the concept of Czech self-government.
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- Born
- Sep 25, 1868
- Also known as
- Квапил, Ярослав
- Nationality
- Czechoslovakia
- Czech Republic
- Profession
- Died
- Jan 10, 1950
Prague
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on July 23, 2013
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