Biography
Jiří Ignác Línek (Georg Ignaz Linek) (21 January, 1725 - 30 December, 1791) was a renowned Bohemian late-Baroque composer and pedagogue, said to have composed over 300[1] works in his lifetime. He is especially noted for his Christmas pastorals and for his initiation of a literary brotherhood within Bohemia.
He was born at Bakov nad Jizerou. In the period official register was his name entered as Linka. Nevertheless, he always signed himself Linek.[2] He studied at the piarist gymnasium in Kosmonosy, later he studied composition with Josef Seger.[3] From 1747 to his death he worked as a teacher, choirmaster, and member of the literary fraternity in Bakov nad Jizerou. He died of the tuberculosis. The site of his grave is not known.
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Most of Linek's music was composed for the church, his favorite instrument was the harpsichord. Many of his religious works were
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