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This article is about the Czech poet, playwright, and librettist.

For the Czech composer, conductor, and pianist, see Jaroslav Kvapil (composer).

Jaroslav Kvapil (1897)

Signature of Jaroslav Kvapil (1932)

Jaroslav Kvapil (September 25, 1868 in Chudenice – January 10, 1950 in Prague) was a Czech poet, playwright, and librettist.

From 1900 he was a director and Dramaturg at the National Theatre in Prague, where he introduced plays by Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen and Maxim Gorky into the repertoire.

Later he was a director at the Vinohrady Theatre (1921–1928).

He wrote six plays, but is today chiefly remembered as the librettist of Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka.^[1]

Kvapil was the principal author of the Manifesto of Czech writers of 1917, signed by over two hundred leading Czechs, favouring the concept of Czech self-government.^[2]

References[edit]

Jump up ^ The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas By John W. Freeman, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), pg 127
Jump up ^ J. Poláček, Manifest českých spisovatelů (2007)

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 19810510 LCCN: n82113175 ISNI: 0000 0003 6854 6854 GND: 118778293 BNF: cb129656708 NKC: jk01071151

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Name	Kvapil, Jaroslav
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Short description	Czech writer
Date of birth	September 25, 1868
Place of birth
Date of death	January 10, 1950
Place of death