ZDENEK KOLARSKY Violinist & VLADIMIR POLIVSKA Pianist dual autographed photo

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Dual autographed 4" x 6" postcard photograph of the Czech violinist-pianist duo, January 8, 1942.  The image is part of the postcard, but half tone, looks great in person!
Zdenek Kolarsky (1898-1989) was a violinist & pedagogue
He studied with Jan Marak privately whilst studying at Charles University in Prague.  From 1924-1927 he studied in the Prague Conservatory masters program with Jaroslav Kocian.  He was a first violinist with the Czech Philharmonic and taught violin at the Prague Conservatory.  His duo with Vladimir Polivka ran from 1930 to 1948 and they had a repertoire of over 70 works which they performed together in concert.
Vladimír Polívka (1896 - 1948) was a Czech pianist, writer and composer
He entered the Prague Conservatory, where he studied piano with Josef Procházka and composition with Karel Steckr. He also graduated from the Master School of composer Vítězslav Novák.  He became a piano accompanist of Czech contralto Olga Borová-Valoušková and violinist Jaroslav Kocian. He performed several concert tours with Kocian not only in the Czech Republic, but also in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Italy and Austria. Between 1922 and 1923 they toured Japan and the United States.
After returning to Bohemia, he founded the Czech Trio Chamber Association (Jan Gregor - violin, Oldřich Jiroušek - cello), which was highly successful. With the Czech Trio he traveled back to the United States, where he worked as a concert artist and as a professor at Lawndal Conservatory in Chicago. In 1927 he attended an interpretation course at Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. He returned to the United States and taught at the United Artist Conservatory in Chicago for another 3 years.
In 1930 he returned to the Czech Republic permanently and taught singing at a grammar school in Prague, externally harmony at the Prague Conservatory and piano and theory at the Municipal Music School in Písek. He became a full professor of piano at the Conservatory in 1940. He performed for almost twenty years with the violinist Zdeněk Kolářský as the Chamber Duo. He also wrote articles about music for Czech and foreign periodicals.
Partial list of works:
Orchestral compositions
Spring (1918)
Intermezzo (1919)
Little Symphony (1921)
Suite (1928)
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