Jan Hřímalý

Jan Hřímalý (Russian: Иван Войцехович Гржимали, also Ivan Voitsekhovich Grzhimali; 13 April 1844 – 24 January [O.S.

[8] His students included Iosif Kotek, Reinhold Glière,[4] who dedicated his Octet for Strings, Op.

He published a number of technical exercises and studies, some of which were valued by Jascha Heifetz,[18] and he died in Moscow in 1915.

Together with his brothers, Vojtěch (1842–1908), Jan Bartulomeus Čestmír (1844–1915), and Bohuslav Ferdinand Wenzl (1848–1894), they started the first string quartet in Bohemia.

His sisters, Maria Regina (1839–1924) and Anna Jana (1840–1897) were renowned singers in Salzburg, Austria.