Karel Navrátil
Czech composer and music writer (b. 24 April 1867 [N.S.] in Prague; d. 23 December 1936 in Prague).
Navrátil studied in Vienna with Guido Adler (music theory) and Karel Ondříček (violin), and went on to become a music critic in the Austrian capital. After 1915 he returned to Prague, where he worked as a music teacher and a freelance composer. His compositions include two operas, a symphony and five symphonic poems, two piano concertos and a violin concerto, chamber music and piano pieces, choral works and songs, although very few of these have been published.
Correspondence with Tchaikovsky
One letter from Tchaikovsky to Karel Navrátil has survived, dating from 1891, and has been translated into English on this website:
- Letter 4572b – 13/25 December 1891, from Maydanovo
One undated letter from Navrátil to Tchaikovsky is preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, No. 3027).
