The LITERARY tradition: Pupils in the Czech language lessons prepared biographies of two literary  personalities. The first one is a poet Petr Bezruč and the second one is a native of Frýdek, Ervin Goj, a poet writing in a local dialect under the pseudonym Óndra Łysohorský.   

   The MUSICAL tradition:  Pupils decided to introduce you the personality of a composer Leoš Janáček. His grandfather came from a drapery family of Frýdek. Janáček influenced the creative work of many composers in our region. 

PETR BEZRUČ  

   His real name was Vladimír Vašek and he was born 15th September, 1867 in Opava. After finishing the grammar school in Brno he moved to Prague to study a classical filology there. However he left his studies after three years and worked as a post clerk in Místek. His stay in Místek was short- he worked here only for two years,  but it was very important for his personal as well as for his artistic development. Here, in Silesia, Bezruč met the social oppression and experienced the emotional disappointment. Both considerably influenced his later poetic work.                                                                                                           

                                                                                                                        L.Kupsová 

ONDRA LYSOHORSKÝ  

   Professor, poet and translater Óndra Łysohorský (his real name was Ervín Goj) was born 6th June, 1905 in Frýdek as a ninth child in the family of a coal-miner. He studied in Frýdek, in Místek, in Ostrava. After acquiring his doctorate at the German University in Prague he resided in Slovakia. His poems  were translated into thirty languages, he was a member of many literary organisations and in 1970 he was nominated for a Nobel prize for literature.  He died after a long and hard illness in Bratislava in 1989. He was buried in his family tomb in Frýdek. 

 „What to say about Místek?  What to say about Frýdek? Místek- a faithful leaf belongs to Frýdek- a floweret"                                                                          

                                                                                                Tereza Stachurová, 8.D 

LEOŠ JANÁČEK 

   Leoš Janáček was born 3rd July, 1854 in a village Hukvaldy in a poor family. When he was eleven, Janáček was sent by his parents to a monastery in Brno. There he obtained a musical education which he completed more in Leipzig and in Wienna. His personal life wasn’t happy- he lost his son and an adult daughter. His dissappointment was even deeper when his masterpiece was refused in the National Theatre in Prague. At the end of his life Janáček experienced gigantic success. He was glorified in England, Italy, Germany, his operas were performed in many other countries. He died in Ostrava in 1928. Leoš Janáček studied intensively a folk song, moravian and silesian, in particular. He also studied an intonation in a spoken speech which helped him to find an adequate melody in his operas.      

                                                                                                         Skalická, Dohnal, 8.D