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25: 90: 229:, were noted by his contemporaries for their solidity of texture and their sensitive treatment of the text as well as for their chromaticism. His instrumental music includes trio and quartet sonatas, sinfonias and partitas, mostly for strings and 155:(an important composer and organist) at the Minorite Church of St. James the Great, and he is believed to have received musical instruction from him. Tůma then went to Vienna, where he was active as a church musician; according to 194:
to Prague Cathedral, but his recommendation arrived too late and Tůma may have remained in Kinsky's service until the latter's death in 1741. In that year he was appointed
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monastery of Geras (Lower Austria), but in his last illness he returned to Vienna and died in the hospital of the Merciful Brethren in the Leopoldstadt.
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Tůma received his early musical training from his father, parish organist at Kostelec, and probably studied at the
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For the next 18 years he remained in Vienna and was active as a composer and as a player on the bass viol and the
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to the dowager empress, the widow of Emperor Charles VI. On her death in 1750, Tůma received a pension.
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at Vienna in 1722. Tůma's name first appears in Viennese records in April 1727, when he got married.
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Tůma's music belongs stylistically to the late Baroque. His sacred works, which were known to
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He was an important late-baroque composer, organist, gambist and theorbist.
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in Vienna. He participated in the premiere of Fux's opera
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Kostelec nad Orlicí
Bohemia
Vienna
Czech
Baroque era
Vienna
Franz Joseph, Count Kinsky
Charles VI
Clementinum
Prague
B. M. Černohorský
Marpurg
Kinsky
Johann Fux
Georg Benda
Sylvius Leopold Weiss
theorbo
Maria Theresa
Premonstratensian
Haydn
Mozart
continuo

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