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Strauss, Josef
(Encyclopedia)Strauss, Josef: see Strauss, family. ...Suk, Josef
(Encyclopedia)Suk, Josef yôˈzĕf so͝ok [key], 1874–1935, Czech composer and violinist, grad. Prague Conservatory, 1891; pupil and son-in-law of Dvořák. While still at the Prague Conservatory, he and three of...Čapek, Josef
(Encyclopedia)Čapek, Josef yôˈsĕfchäˈpĕk [key], 1887–1945, Czech writer and painter. He collaborated with his brother KarelKarel on a number of plays and short stories. On his own he wrote the utopian play...Rheinberger, Josef
(Encyclopedia)Rheinberger, Josef yōˈzĕf rīnˈbĕrgər [key], 1839–1901, German composer; studied at the Munich Conservatory, where he later taught. An eclectic, late romantic composer, he wrote 20 organ sonat...Bauhaus
(Encyclopedia)Bauhaus bouˈhous [key], artists' collective and school of art and architecture in Germany (1919–33). The Bauhaus revolutionized art training by combining the teaching of classic arts with the study...Hauer, Josef Matthias
(Encyclopedia)Hauer, Josef Matthias yōˈzĕf mätēäs houˈər [key], 1883–1959, Austrian music theorist and composer. Primarily self-taught, Hauer devised a method of atonal composition that used the 12 tones ...Franz Josef Land
(Encyclopedia)Franz Josef Land frăns jōˈzəf, fränts yōˈzĕf [key], Rus. Zemlya Frantsa Iosifa, archipelago, c.6,300 sq mi (16,320 sq km), in the Arctic Ocean N of Novaya Zemlya, Russia. It consists of more t...Machar, Josef Svatopluk
(Encyclopedia)Machar, Josef Svatopluk yôˈzĕf sväˈtôplo͝ok mäˈkhär [key], 1854–1942, Czech poet and essayist. A leader of the realist movement in Czech poetry and a master of colloquial Czech, Machar was...Strauss, Franz Josef
(Encyclopedia)Strauss, Franz Josef shtrous [key], 1915–88, West German political figure, leader of the Christian Social Union. He became prominent in the Bavarian Christian Social Union (the Bavarian wing of the...Schafarik, Pavel Josef
(Encyclopedia)Schafarik, Pavel Josef: see Šafařik, Pavel Josef. ...Browse by Subject
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