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Mokrý

Jiří Mokrý (1892–?) was a Czech cellist and composer who studied at the Prague Conservatory from 1906 to 1912 before joining the Czech Philharmonic. After military service in the First World War he played in theatre orchestras in Prague, Bratislava, and Pardubice before settling in Prague to run his own music school from 1930 to 1949. A cellist by training, he proved a remarkably productive composer for the violin, writing around 100 pieces for violin and piano alongside a series of student concertos; the Violin Concertino in G major of 1936 has proved the most durable

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