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Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann (1883–1951) was known as an organ virtuoso, a teacher of Prague Conservatory and Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Unlike his Czech organ-playing contemporaries, he was also very active as a composer, composed around 400 pieces, nearly a quarter of which was intended for organ. His extensive personal collection of manuscripts was deposited at the Museum of Czech Music in Prague and includes many vocal sacred pieces, but also songs and arrangements of folk songs. There are 19 of them in form of song with accompaniment, male, female and mixed choruses, 1 organ Variations and fugue on Moravian folk song from Napoleon era and 11 settings of newly written lyrics in Haná dialect. It is not surprising that this native of Ivanovice na Hané, who later visited Moravia many times in his life, was inspired by folk songs, mostly Moravian ones. He wrote his first arrangements of folk songs during his theological studies in Olomouc in 1907, then during his organ work at the Emmaus Church in Prague and then as a teacher at the Prague Conservatory.