His obituary in the Adelaide Review, titled "Prince of the oboe", said of his playing: Jiří Tancibudek was born at Mnichovo Hradiště, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic).
Mackerras mentioned that he had never heard an opera by Leoš Janáček, so Tancibudek suggested he attend a performance of Káťa Kabanová that was then playing.
Jiří Tancibudek died on 1 May 2004, on board an aircraft passing over Central Australia,[5] while en route to attend the 7 May 2004 wedding of his granddaughter Sarah in Vienna.
[1] A memorial concert to Tancibudek was held at Elder Hall at the University of Adelaide on 15 August 2004, involving musicians who had travelled from Berlin, Vienna, Hong Kong and many parts of Australia.
They all gave their services free of charge, in aid of a new "Jiří Tancibudek Memorial Scholarship"[7] established by the Elder School of Music.
[1] He gave the British premiere with the conductor Maurice Miles for a BBC broadcast, and his friend Evelyn Rothwell, John Barbirolli's wife.
[4] Colin Brumby's first work to receive a professional performance, the Romance for Oboe and Strings, was premiered in 1954 by Jiří Tancibudek with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Tancibudek's students included: Norman Weiner (who succeeded him as Principal Oboe with the MSO, and who was in turn the grand-teacher of Diana Doherty); Jeffrey Crellin (another MSO Principal Oboe); David Nuttall; Anne Gilby;[17][18] Peter Veale;[19] Vivienne Brooke;,[20] David Sydney Morgan[21] and Ian Keith Harris.
His grandson Raphael Christ is concert master of the Bochumer Symphoniker[8] and his granddaughter Sarah is a former harpist of the Vienna Philharmonic, one of the very few female members of that orchestra.