Iša Krejčí

Iša František Krejčí (10 July 1904 – 6 March 1968) was a Czech neoclassicist composer, conductor and dramaturge.

He studied history and musicology at Charles University and concurrently piano playing with Albín Šíma and composition at the Prague Conservatory with Karel Boleslav Jirák and Vítězslav Novák and conducting with Václav Talich.

As a conductor, he concentrated especially on the contemporary French repertoire and Igor Stravinsky's compositions.

With this work, based on Classical forms, he became known as a Czech representative of neoclassicism (Macek 2001).

He wrote the operas Antigone ("Antigona", after Sophocles, 1934) and An Uproar in Efes ("Pozdvižení v Efesu", after Shakespeare, 1943) as well as four symphonies.