{{Short description|Moravian organist and music teacher}}{{Infobox person | name = Josef Neruda | image = Josef Neruda 1881 Mukarovsky.png | caption = Josef Neruda; portrait by Josef Mukařovský | birth_date = January 16 1807 | birth_place = Mohelno | death_date = February 18 1875 | death_place = Brno | known_for = Organist and music teacher }} '''Josef Neruda''' (16 January 1807, Mohelno – 18 February 1875, Brno) was a Moravian organist and music teacher.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Clark |first=Linda L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NtitRt1uUXMC |title=Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-Century Europe |date=2008-04-17 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-65098-4 |pages=107 |language=en}}</ref> Josef was a great-grandson of the composer Johann Baptist Georg Neruda.

==Life== Josef Neruda learned the basics of organ playing in the Rajhrad monastery. In his youth, he was a teacher assistant in Náměšť nad Oslavou, besides this he played in Haugwitz chapel and taught piano in Olomouc. In 1832, he accepted an offer to become the minister organist in Brno. He kept this position for 36 years.

==Family== Josef Neruda had musically talented children. He toured all over the Europe with some of them under the name Neruda Quartet.<ref>{{cite web |title=Neruda {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/neruda |website=encyclopedia.com}}</ref>

* Amálie Neruda (married Wickenhauser, 1834–1890), a pianist and a teacher, one of her students was Leoš Janáček * Viktor Neruda (1836–1852), a cellist, died during the Russian concert tour in Saint Petersburg * Wilma Neruda, Lady Hallé (1838–1911),<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rOAqAAAAYAAJ |title=The Violinist |date=1910 |publisher=Violinist Company |pages=29 |language=en}}</ref> a virtuoso violinist, married conductor Charles Hallé * Maria Neruda (1840–1920), a violinist, married the singer and composer Fritz Arlberg * Franz Xaver Neruda (1843–1915), a cellist who later became professor at the conservatories in Saint Petersburg and Copenhagen * Olga Neruda (1858–1945), a pianist.

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