Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann

Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann (10 November 1883 – 5 November 1951) was a Czech organist, composer, teacher and organ builder. Life Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann was born on 10 November 1883 in Ivanovice na Hané, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. He graduated from the classical lyceum in Prague, where his teacher for elective singing was the organist Josef Klička (who also taught at the Prague Conservatory). He worked briefly as a finance clerk in Kroměříž before deciding to study theology at Olomouc. During his studies in Olomouc, he was the organist and choirmaster at the St. Wenceslas cathedral. After seven semesters of study, shortly before he would have graduated, he abandoned theology and enrolled in the Prague Conservatory, where he would study from 1908 to 1910, organ with Josef Klička and composition with Vítězslav Novák. Between 1910 and 1919 he worked as a church organist, first at the cathedral in Brno, then in Prague at the Emmaus Church and at the Church of Cyril and Methodius in Karlín. At the same time, he played the viola in the Czech Philharmonic for three years. In the meantime, he also joined the faculty of the Prague Conservatory, where he would teach from 1917 to 1944 and ag