Leopold Eugen Měchura
Czech musician
Died when: 66 years 9 days (792 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Leopold Eugen Mechura (also Miechura; born Prague, February 2, 1804 – died February 11, 1870, in OtÃn, near Klatovy) was a Czech composer.Mechura studied law at the Charles University in Prague, as well as piano and music theory.
He then moved to OtÃn, beginning his service as town justice in Klatovy.There he continued performing, both privately and in public, as well as composing.
He composed many vocal pieces, and wrote church music as well; his operas took either Czech or German texts.Mechura's best-known work was the opera Marie Potocká, after a poem by Alexander Pushkin, which was premiered posthumously in 1871 at the National Theatre, Prague under the baton of Bedrich Smetana.
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