Karel Husa was a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.
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Karel Husa then continued composition and conducting studies in Paris.
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Karel Husa studied conducting at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and at the Conservatoire de Paris.
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Karel Husa's conducting teachers included Jean Fournet, Eugene Bigot and Andre Cluytens.
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Karel Husa subsequently divided his career between composing and conducting.
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From 1954 until 1992, Karel Husa was a professor at Cornell University, eventually holding the Kappa Alpha chair in music.
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Composers who studied with Husa include Steven Stucky, Leonard Lehrman, Christopher Rouse, John S Hilliard, Jerry Amaldev, Christopher Kaufman, Ann Loomis Silsbee, David Conte, and Byron Adams.
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Karel Husa was a lecturer at Ithaca College from 1967 to 1986, and served as the first Director of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra from 1977 to 1984.
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Karel Husa composed Music for Prague 1968, a work in memory of the 1968 Soviet bloc invasion of Czechoslovakia, which became one of his most celebrated compositions.
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Karel Husa was the 1993 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for his Concerto for Cello and Orchestra.
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Karel Husa was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.
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In 2012, Karel Husa received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Louisville.