Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek was an Austro-Bohemian composer born in Prague in 1860 who built a career as a conductor and composer of operas, symphonies, orchestral overtures and chamber music within the late-Romantic tradition. His music combines late-Romantic orchestration and melodic clarity with occasional elements of humour and neoclassical gesture, evolving across his career to include incidental theatre music and works that reflect Central European musical currents around the turn of the twentieth century.
