Jiri Ignac Linek

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.