Jablonski, Marek (Michael)
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Jirko, Ivan(b Prague, 7 Oct 1926; d Prague, 20 Aug 1978). Czech composer and critic. He read medicine at Prague University, concurrently studying composition with Karel Janeček (1944–9) and Bořkovec (1949–52). He worked as a psychiatrist from 1951 to 1971, and was also a music critic for Prague newspapers. From 1974 to 1978 he was lecturer at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts; from 1976 he was opera dramaturg at the National Theatre. Jirko was secretary of the Přítomnost association for contemporary music and a committee member of the Union of Czech and Czechoslovak Composers. His articles in Tempo, Rytmus and Hudební rozhledy deal principally with the aesthetics of musical socialist realism. For more than 25 years Jirko worked at creating a highly individual musical expression rooted in neo-classicism. His music is cast in extended forms that follow examples of Shostakovich and Bořkovec, but it also shows melodic influences from Czech folksong. The vocabulary of his music is predominantly tonal, in the broadest sense of the term, while his settings are concise and formally well-founded. Many works convey a sense of brightness and optimism. WORKS(selective list)
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