List of selected composers born or trained in the

Czech lands The Czech lands or the Bohemian lands (, ) is a historical-geographical term which denotes the three historical regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia out of which Czechoslovakia, and later the Czech Republic and Slovakia, were formed. ...

. The periods need to be taken with some reserve, because some composers, for example Jan Ladislav Dussek, composed music that was way ahead of their time and for example

Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8September 18411May 1904) was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predec ...

himself was a romantic-classicist synthesist, so he does not have a perfect place in the list.

Renaissance

Jan Blahoslav Jan Blahoslav (20 February 1523 – 24 November 1571) was a Czech humanistic writer, poet, translator, etymologist, hymnographer, grammarian, music theorist and composer. He was a Unity of the Brethren bishop, and translated the New Testament i ...

(1523–1571) *

Jan Simonides Montanus Jan Simonides Montanus (d. 1587) was a composer of the Renaissance era from Bohemia. He was born in Kutná Hora Kutná Hora (; ) is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 22,000 inhabitants. The history of Kutn� ...

(1530/1540–1587) * Simon Bar Jona Madelka (1530/1550–~1598) *

Jiří Rychnovský Jiří Rychnovský (1545, Rychnov nad Kněžnou – 1616, Chrudim) was a Czechs, Czech composer of the Renaissance and early Baroque era. He was the mayor of Chrudim. His musical work consists of Czech and Latin sacred music with advanced vocal ...

(1545–1616) * Jan Trojan Turnovský (before 1550–1606) *

Pavel Spongopaeus Jistebnický Pavel Spongopaeus Jistebnický (1550-1560 in Jistebnice u Tábora – 1619 in Kutná Hora) was a composer of the Renaissance and early Baroque era from Bohemia. He worked as a teacher all his life. He took several different posts and in 1598, ...

(1560–1616) * Kryštof Harantz Polžic a Bezdružic (1564–1621)

Baroque

Jan Campanus Vodňanský Johannes Vodnianus Campanus (also Ionnes Campanus Vodnianus, , ''Jan z Vodňan'' or ''Jan Kampánus Vodňanský'') (27 December 1572 – 13 December 1622) was a Czech humanist, composer, pedagogue, poet, and dramatist. He was born in Vodňany (he ...

(1572–1622) * Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (~1600–1676) * Alberik Mazák (1609–1661) *

Pavel Josef Vejvanovský Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (c. 1639 – 24 July 1693) was a Czech-Moravian composer and trumpeter of the Baroque period. Life Vejvanovský was born probably in Hlučín (possibly in Hukvaldy), probably in 1639 or 1640 (1633 is also sometimes menti ...

(~1640–1693) *

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber correctly ''Biber von Bibern'' (baptism, bapt. 12 August 1644, Stráž pod Ralskem – 3 May 1704, Salzburg) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally ...

(1644–1704) (born Stráž pod Ralskem, 50 miles n. of Prague) *

Václav Karel Holan Rovenský Václav Karel Holan Rovenský (1644 in Rovensko pod Troskami – 27 February 1718 in Rovensko pod Troskami) was a baroque composer and organist from Bohemia.Clapham, John, and Eva Mikanová. "Holan Rovenský, Václav Karel." Grove Music Online. 200 ...

(~1644–1718) *

Jan Ignác František Vojta Jan Ignác František Vojta was a Czech composer (*1657-+12.5.1701) of Baroque music and a doctor of medicine. Apart from notes in the university records, written in his own hand, we have no other primary source information about him. He lived in t ...

(1657 Černovice–12.5.1701 Praha) *

Jan Dismas Zelenka Jan Dismas Zelenka (16 October 1679 – 23 December 1745), baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka was a Bohemian composer and musician of the Baroque period. His music is admired for its harmonic inventiveness and mastery of counterpoint. Zelenka was ...

(1679–1745) *

Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (Christened 16 February 1684, Nymburk, Bohemia – 1 July 1742, Graz, Austria) was a Czech composer, organist and teacher of the baroque era. He wrote among other works motets, other choral works (a fugue ''Laudetur ...

(1684–1742) *

Jan Josef Ignác Brentner Jan Josef Ignác Brentner (''Johann Joseph Ignaz'', surname also spelled Brenntner, Brendner, Brendtner, or Prentner; 3 November 1689 – 28 June 1742) was a Bohemian composer of the Baroque era. Biography Jan Josef Ignác Brentner was born into th ...

(1689–1742) *

Šimon Brixi Šimon Brixi (28 October 1693 in Vlkava – 2 November 1735 in Prague) was a Czechs, Czech composer. He was the father of František Brixi. Life He was born in Vlkava. In 1720, he began studying law in Prague but did not complete his studies, choo ...

(1693–1735) * František Antonín Václav Míča (1694–1744) *

František Jiránek František Jiránek (24 July 1698 – 1778) was a Czech (Bohemian) Baroque composer, musician and very likely a student of Antonio Vivaldi. Life Jiránek was born on 24 July 1698 in Lomnice nad Popelkou (Northern Bohemia, present-day Czech Republi ...

(1698–1778) * František Ignác Tůma (1704–1774) *

Josef Antonín Sehling Josef Antonín Sehling (also Seeling, Seling, Sölling; 7 January 1710 – 19 September 1756) was a Bohemian composer and violinist of the baroque period. Life Sehling was born in Toužim (German: Teusing), Western Bohemia. From an early age, he ...

(1710–1756)

Classical era

Johann Baptist Georg Neruda Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (, – ) was a Czech classical composer, violinist and cellist. Life Neruda's dates of birth and death are only approximations (1708 according to the '' Grove Dictionary'', other sources list 1707 or 1710). He was bor ...

(born Jan Křtitel Jiří Neruda; approx 1707–1780) *

František Benda Franz Benda (; baptised 22 November 1709 – 7 March 1786) was a Bohemian violinist and composer, who worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great. Life Benda was born in Old Benatek in Bohemia, the son of Jan Jiří Benda. ...

(a.k.a. Franz Benda; 1709–1786) *

Franz Xaver Richter Franz ( Czech: František) Xaver Richter, known as ''François Xavier Richter'' in France (December 1, 1709 – September 12, 1789) was an Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician who spent most of his life ...

(born in Moravia, 1709–1789) * Jan Václav Antonín Stamic (generally known as Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz ; 1717–1757) *

Jiří Antonín Benda Georg Anton Benda (; 30 June 17226 November 1795) was a Bohemian composer, violinist and ''Kapellmeister'' of the classical period. Biography Born into a family of notable musicians in Old Benatek (today Benátky nad Jizerou), Bohemia, he st ...

(a.k.a. George Benda; brother of Franz Benda; 1722–1795) *

Jiří Ignác Linek Jiří Ignác Línek (21 January 1725 – 30 December 1791) was a Czech late-Baroque composer and pedagogue, said to have composed over 300 works in his lifetime. He is especially noted for his Christmas pastorals and for his initiation of a lite ...

(1725–1791) *

Florian Leopold Gassmann Florian Leopold Gassmann (3 May 1729 – 21 January 1774) was a German-speaking Bohemian opera composer of the transitional period between the baroque and classical eras. He was one of the principal composers of ''dramma giocoso'' immediat ...

(1729–1774) *

František Xaver Pokorný František Xaver Pokorný (20 December 1729, Stříbro – 2 July 1794, Regensburg) was a Czech composer and violinist of the classical period. Life and career František Xaver Pokorný was born on (20 December 1729 in Mies (now Stříbro). Whi ...

(1729–1794) * František Kočvara (1730–1791) *

František Xaver Dušek František Xaver Dušek ( or ''Dussek)''; 8 December 1731 – 12 February 1799) was a Czech composer and one of the most important harpsichordists and pianists of his time. Biography Dušek was born in Chotěborky, which is part of Vilantice, in ...

(1731–1799) *

František Brixi František Xaver Brixi (2 January 1732 – 14 October 1771) was a Czech classical composer of the 18th century. His first name is sometimes given by reference works in its Germanic form, Franz. Biography Brixi was born in Prague, the son of com ...

(1732–1771) *

Josef Mysliveček Josef Mysliveček (9 March 1737 – 4 February 1781) was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music. Mysliveček provided his younger friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with significant com ...

(1737–1781) *

Johann Baptist Wanhal Johann Baptist Wanhal (12 May 1739 – 20 August 1813) was a Czech composer of the Classical period. He was born in Nechanice, Bohemia, and died in Vienna. His music was well respected by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beetho ...

(1739–1813; born Jan Ignatius Vaňhal) * Václav Pichl (1741–1805) * Josef Bárta (1744–1787) * Jiří Družecký (1745–1819) * Karel Stamic (1745–1801) * Jan Václav Stich (1746–1803) *

Leopold Koželuch Leopold Koželuch (, born ''Jan Antonín Koželuh'', alternatively also ''Leopold Koželuh'', ''Leopold Kotzeluch''; 26 June 1747 – 7 May 1818) was a Czech composer and music teacher. He was born in Velvary and moved to Prague to further hi ...

(1747-1818) *

Josef Fiala Josef Fiala (''Joseph Fiala'') (3 February 1748 – 31 July 1816), was a Czech composer, oboist, viola da gamba virtuoso, cellist, and pedagogue of the Classical period. Life He was born in Lochovice in Bohemia and began his musical career t ...

(1748–1816) *

Antonín Kraft Antonín Kraft Antonín Kraft (30 December 1749, Rokycany – 28 August 1820, Vienna) was a Czech cellist and composer. He was a close friend of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. He worked in the Holy Roman Empire and later in the Austrian Empire. B ...

(1749–1820) * Antonín Stamic (1750–1809) *

Antonio Rosetti Francesco Antonio Rosetti (c. 1750 – 30 June 1792) was a classical era composer and double bass player, and was a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart. There is considerable confusion regarding his name. The occasional mention of a supposed, bu ...

(born Anton Rössler) (c. 1750–1792) *

Pavel Vranický Paul Wranitzky (Czech: Pavel Vranický; 30 December 1756 – 29 September 1808) was a Moravian-Austrian classical period (music), classical composer. His half brother, Antonín Vranický, Antonín, was also a composer. Life Wranitzky was born in ...

(1756–1808) *

Franz Krommer Franz Krommer (; 27 November 1759 – 8 January 1831) was a Czech composer of classical music and violinist. He was one of the most popular composers in 19th-century Vienna alongside Beethoven, whom he knew. Today he is mostly known for his clari ...

(1759–1831; born as František Kramář) *

Jan Ladislav Dussek Jan Ladislav Dussek (baptized Jan Václav Dusík, Černušák, p. 271 with surname also written as Duschek or Düssek; 12 February 176020 March 1812) was a Czech classical period composer and virtuoso pianist. He was an important representative ...

(1760–1812) *

Antonín Vranický Antonín Vranický, Germanized as Anton Wranitzky, and also seen as Wranizky (13 June 1761 in Nová Říše – 6 August 1820 in Vienna), was a Czech violinist and composer of the 18th century. He was the half brother of Pavel Vranický. T ...

(1761–1820) *

Adalbert Gyrowetz Vojtěch Matyáš Jírovec (Adalbert Gyrowetz) (20 February 1763 – 19 March 1850) was a Bohemian composer. He mainly wrote instrumental works, with a great production of string quartets and symphonies; his operas and singspiele numbered mo ...

(1763–1850) *

Jakub Jan Ryba Jakub Šimon Jan Ryba (surname also Poisson, Peace, Ryballandini, Rybaville; 26 October 1765 – 8 April 1815) was a Czech people, Czech teacher and composer of european classical music, classical music. His most famous work is the ''Czech Christm ...

(1765–1815)

Romantic

Antonín Rejcha Anton (Antonín, Antoine) Joseph Reicha (Rejcha) (26 February 1770 – 28 May 1836) was a Czech-born, Bavarian-educated, later naturalized French composer and music theorist. A contemporary and lifelong friend of Beethoven, he is now best rem ...

(1770–1836) * Wenzeslaus Matiegka (1773–1830) *

Václav Jan Tomášek Václav () or rarely Vácslav is a Czech male given name. It is among the most common Czech names. The Latinized form of the name is Wenceslaus and the Polish form of the name is Wacław. The name was derived from the old Czech name Veceslav, meani ...

(1774–1850) *

František Doubravský František Doubravský (7 February 1790, Lomnice nad Popelkou – 28 April 1867, Lomnice nad Popelkou) was a Czech composer, choirmaster and organist. Františrk Doubravský was a prolific composer of classicist era. The list of works content te ...

(1790–1867) *

Jan Václav Voříšek Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek (; ''Johann Hugo Worzischek'', 11 May 1791, in Vamberk, Bohemia – 19 November 1825, in Vienna, Austria) was a Czech composer, pianist, and organist. Life Voříšek was born in the town of Vamberk, Bohemia, where h ...

(1791–1825) *

František Škroup František Jan Škroup (; 3 June 1801 in Osice near Hradec Králové – 7 February 1862 in Rotterdam) was a Czech composer and conductor. His brother Jan Nepomuk Škroup was also a successful composer and his father, Dominik Škroup, and othe ...

(1801–1862) *

Alexander Dreyschock Alexander Dreyschock (15 October 1818 – 1 April 1869) was a Czech pianist and composer. Born in Žáky in Bohemia, his musical talents were first noticed aged eight, and at age 15 he travelled to Prague to study piano and composition with Vá ...

(1818–1869) *

Pavel Křížkovský Pavel Křížkovský (born as Karel Křížkovský) (9 January 1820, Kreuzendorf – 8 May 1885, Brno) was a Czech choral composer and conductor. Life Křížkovský was born in Kreuzendorf, Austrian Silesia. He was a chorister in a monastery ...

(1820–1885) *

Bedřich Smetana Bedřich Smetana ( ; ; 2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival". He has been regarded ...

(1824–1884) *

Vilém Blodek Vilém Blodek, born Vilém František Plodek (October 3, 1834, Prague – May 1, 1874, Prague), was a Czech composer, flautist, and pianist. Biography Blodek was born into a poor family and was educated at a German Piarist school in Prague. Af ...

(1834–1874) *

Karel Bendl Karel Bendl, or , pseudonym: ''Podskalský'' (16 April 1838, Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire 20 September 1897, Prague) was a Czech composer. Life Bendl was born and died in Prague. He studied at the organ school, where he met and befriende ...

(1838–1897) *

Zdeněk Fibich Zdeněk Fibich (, 21 December 1850 in Všebořice – 15 October 1900 in Prague) was a Czech composer of classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works (including two string quartets, a piano trio, piano quartet and a quintet for pia ...

(1850–1900) *

Wilhelm Kuhe Wilhelm Kuhe (10 December 1823 – 8 October 1912) was a Czech pianist and piano teacher, composer and administrator born in the city of Prague (modern-day Czech Republic), in the first half of the nineteenth century. Life He exhibited a precocio ...

(1823–1912) *

(1841–1904)

Modern/Contemporary

Leoš Janáček Leoš Janáček (, 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, Music theory, music theorist, Folkloristics, folklorist, publicist, and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian folk music, Moravian and other Slavs, Slavic music, includin ...

(1854–1928) *

Bohumil Fidler Bohumil Fidler (also Fiedler) (May 27, 1860 - June 2, 1944) was a Czech composer, choirmaster, choral conductor and music teacher. He was born in Příbram, where he lived and worked his entire life. Biography Fidler was a foremost figure in t ...

(1860–1944) *

Josef Bohuslav Foerster Josef Bohuslav Foerster (30 December 1859 – 29 May 1951) was a Czech composer and musicologist. He is often referred to as J. B. Foerster, and his surname is sometimes spelled Förster. Life Foerster was born in Prague. His ancestors were of ...

(1859–1951) *

Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic music, Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and ...

(1860–1911; born in Kaliště, Bohemia) *

Karel Kovařovic Karel Kovařovic (9 December 1862 6 December 1920) was a Czech people, Czech composer and conductor from Prague. Life From 1873 to 1879 he studied clarinet, harp and piano at the Prague Conservatory.''Dopisy o životě hudebním i lidském, p. ...

(1862–1920) *

Emil Votoček Emil Votoček (5 October 1872 – 11 October 1950) was a Czech chemist, composer and music theorist. He is noted for his chemistry textbooks and multilingual dictionaries in both chemistry and music. Chemistry career Votoček studied at the ...

(1862–1950) *

František Drdla František Alois Drdla ( Germanized as Franz Drdla; 28 November 1868 – 3 September 1944) was a prominent Czech concert violinist and composer of light music. Biography Drdla was born in 1868 in Žďár nad Sázavou, in what is now the Czech ...

(1868–1944) *

Ludvík Čelanský Ludvík or Ludvik is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Ludvík Aškenazy (1921–1986), Czech writer and journalist *Ludvik Buland (1893–1945), Norwegian trade unionist *Ludvík Čelanský (1870–1931), Czech conductor and co ...

(1870–1931) *

Vítězslav Novák Vítězslav Augustín Rudolf Novák (5 December 1870 – 18 July 1949) was a Czech composer and academic teacher at the Prague Conservatory. Stylistically, he was part of the neo-romantic tradition, and his music is considered an important e ...

(1870–1949) * Julius Fučík (1872–1916) * Josef Suk (1874–1935) *

Jan Kubelík Jan Kubelík (5 July 18805 December 1940) was a Czech violinist and composer. Biography He was born in Michle (now part of Prague). His father, a gardener by occupation, was an amateur violinist. He taught his two sons the violin and after di ...

(1880–1940) *

Jaroslav Křička Jaroslav Křička (; 27 August 1882 in Kelč, Moravia – 23 January 1969 in Prague) was a Czech people, Czech composer, Conducting, conductor, and Music education, music teacher. He was the brother of poet Petr Křička:de:Petr_Křička, e...

(1882–1969) * Ladislav Vycpálek (1882–1969) *

Václav Kaprál Václav Kaprál (26 March 1889 in Určice – 6 April 1947 in Brno) was a Czech composer, pianist, and pedagogue. Life Kaprál studied composition with Leoš Janáček in the Brno Organ School (1908–1910) and with Vítězslav Novák (1919–1920 ...

(1889–1947) *

Bohuslav Martinů Bohuslav Jan Martinů (; December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer of modern classical music. He wrote 6 symphony, symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber music, chamber, vocal and ins ...

(1890–1959) *

Otakar Jeremiáš Otakar Jeremiáš (17 October 1892 – 5 March 1962) was a Czech people, Czech composer, conductor and teacher. He was the son of composer Bohuslav Jeremiáš and the brother of composer Jaroslav Jeremiáš. Life Jeremiáš was born in Píse ...

(1892–1962) *

Alois Hába Alois Hába (21 June 1893 – 18 November 1973) was a Czech composer, music theorist and teacher. He belongs to the important discoverers in modern classical music, and to the major composers of microtonal music, especially using the quarter-to ...

(1893–1973) * Ervin Schulhoff (1894–1942) *

Pavel Bořkovec Pavel Bořkovec (10 June 1894, in Prague – 22 July 1972, in Prague) was a Czech composer and music teacher. Bořkovec studied at the Prague Conservatory under Josef Suk. From 1946 to 1967 he taught at the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague. ...

(1894–1972) *

Sláva Vorlová Sláva Vorlová (15 March 1894 – 24 August 1973) was a Czech composer. She also used the pseudonym Mira Kord. Biography Miroslava Johnová was born in Náchod. She studied voice with Rosa Papier at the Academy of Music in Vienna, and in 1915 m ...

(1894–1973) * František Brož (1896–1962) *

Jaromír Weinberger Jaromír Weinberger (8 January 1896 – August 8, 1967) was a Bohemian-born Jewish subject of the Austrian Empire, who became a naturalized American composer. Biography Weinberger was born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, into a family of Jewish ori ...

(1896–1967) *

Viktor Ullmann Viktor Ullmann (1 January 1898 – 18 October 1944) was a Silesia-born Austrian composer, conductor and pianist. Biography Viktor Ullmann was born on 1 January 1898 in Cieszyn (Teschen), which belonged then to Austrian Silesia in the Austro- ...

(1898–1944) *

Pavel Haas Pavel Haas (21 June 189917 October 1944) was a Czech composer who was murdered during the Holocaust. He was an exponent of Leoš Janáček's school of composition, and also utilized elements of folk music and jazz. Although his output was not l ...

(1899–1944) *

Emil Hlobil Emil Hlobil (11 October 1901 – 25 January 1987) was a Czech composer and music professor based in Prague. Biography Hlobil was born in Veselí nad Lužnicí, but lived most of his life in Prague. Between 1924 and 1930 he studied at the Prague ...

(1901–1987) *

Iša Krejčí Iša František Krejčí (10 July 1904 – 6 March 1968) was a Czech neoclassicist composer, conductor and dramaturge. Life Krejčí was born in Prague. He studied history and musicology at Charles University and concurrently piano playing wi ...

(1904–1968) * Theodor Schaefer (1904–1969) * Jaroslav Ježek (1906–1942) *

Václav Trojan Václav Trojan (24 April 1907, Plzeň – 5 July 1983) was a Czech composer of classical music best known for his film scores. Trojan studied composition at the Prague Conservatory under Jaroslav Křička and Otakar Ostrčil from 1923 to 1927. H ...

(1907–1983) *

Miloslav Kabeláč Miloslav Kabeláč (1 August 1908 – 17 September 1979) was a distinguished Czech composer and conductor. Kabeláč belongs to the foremost Czech symphonists, whose work is sometimes compared with Antonín Dvořák's and Bohuslav Martinů's. ...

(1908–1979) * Jan Zdeněk Bartoš (1908–1981) *

Klement Slavický Klement Slavický (September 22, 1910, Tovačov, Moravia – September 4, 1999, Prague, Czech Republic) was a Czech composer of modern classical music. Biography Slavicky studied under Karel Boleslav Jirák and Josef Suk. He was inspired by Mo ...

(1910–1999) * Jan Kapr (1914–1988) *

Rafael Kubelík Rafael Jeroným Kubelík, KBE (29 June 1914 – 11 August 1996) was a Czech conductor and composer. The son of a distinguished violinist, Jan Kubelík, he was trained in Prague and made his debut with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at the a ...

(1914–1996) * Jan Hanuš (1915–2004) *

Vítězslava Kaprálová Vítězslava Kaprálová (; 24 January 191516 June 1940) was a Czech composer and conductor of 20th-century classical music. Life and career Vítězslava Kaprálová was born in Brno, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Czech Republic), a daughter ...

(1915–1940) *

Gideon Klein Gideon Klein (6 December 1919 – c. January 1945) was a Czechoslovakian pianist, classical music composer, educator and organizer of cultural life at Theresienstadt concentration camp. Klein was murdered in the Holocaust. Life Klein was born int ...

(1919–1945) *

Jiří Pauer Jiří Pauer (22 February 1919 in Libušín, Czechoslovakia – 28 December 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic) was a Czech composer. Pauer studied first with Otakar Šín, then from 1943 to 1946 at the Prague Conservatory with Alois Hába, and fina ...

(1919–2007) *

Ludvík Podéšť Ludvík Podéšť, pseudonym Ludvík Binovský (19 December 1921 in Dubňany – 27 February 1968 in Prague), was a Czech composer, conductor, music journalist and editor. Life and career Podéšť studied music composition at Brno Conservatory ...

(1921–1968) * Jan Novák (1921–1984) *

Zdeněk Liška Zdeněk Liška (16 March 1922 – 13 August 1983) was a Czech composer who produced a large number of film scores across a prolific career that started in the 1950s. He was revelatory in his contribution to the development of electronic music. His ...

(1922–1983) *

Radim Drejsl Radim Drejsl (29 April 1923 – 20 April 1953) was a Czech composer, pianist and conductor. He is considered an important composer of politically engaged songs promoting visions of Czechoslovak communist regime in the 1950s. Drejsl applied the i ...

(1923–1953) *

Jiří Hudec Jiří Hudec (born 15 August 1964) is a retired male track and field athlete from the Czech Republic who competed in the 110 metres hurdles. He won three medals at the European Athletics Indoor Championships, representing Czechoslovakia before it ...

(1923–1996) *

Lubor Bárta Lubor Bárta (8 August 1928 in Lubná near Litomyšl – 5 November 1972 in Prague) was a Czech composer. Bárta studied musicology and aesthetics from 1946 to 1948 at Charles University in Prague and was a pupil of Jaroslav Řídký at the Acad ...

(1928–1972) *

Miloslav Ištvan Miloslav Ištvan (2 September 1928 in Olomouc – 26 January 1990, in Brno) was a Czech composer whose work was inspired by the works of Béla Bartók and by the orientation of the modal style of folk songs. He studied Romanian and African folklore ...

(1928–1990) *

Luboš Fišer Luboš Fišer (30 September 1935 – 22 June 1999) was a Czech composer, born in Prague. He was known both for his soundtracks and chamber music. From 1952 to 1956 he studied composition at the Prague Conservatory as a pupil of Emil Hlobil. Fr ...

(1935–1999) * Elena Petrová (1929–2002) *

Karel Janovický Karel Janovický (18 February 1930 – 9 January 2024) was a Czech composer, pianist, BBC producer and administrator who lived in the United Kingdom from 1950. He was one of the youngest of the group of European émigré composers who came to liv ...

(born 1930) *

Karel Husa Karel Husa (August 7, 1921 – December 14, 2016) was a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. In 1954, he emigrated to ...

(1921–2016) *

Ilja Hurník Ilja Hurník (25 November 1922 – 7 September 2013) was a Czech Republic, Czech composer and essayist. Biography Hurnik was born in Poruba (Ostrava), Poruba, now part of Ostrava. He entered the Prague Conservatory, then went on to the Aca ...

(1922–2013) *

Viktor Kalabis Viktor Kalabis (27 February 1923 – 28 September 2006) was a Czech composer, music editor, musicologist, and husband of harpsichordist Zuzana Růžičková. Life Born in Červený Kostelec, Kalabis was interested in music from a young age, b ...

(1923–2006) * Jindřich Feld (1925–2007) * Zdeněk Lukáš (1928–2007) *

Antonín Tučapský Antonín Tučapský (27 March 1928 – 9 September 2014) was a Czechs, Czech composer. From 1973 until his death he lived in the United Kingdom. Biography Tučapský was born in 1928 in Opatovice (part of Vyškov) in Czechoslovakia. In 1947 he gr ...

(1928–2014) *

Petr Eben Petr Eben (22 January 1929 – 24 October 2007) was a Czech composer of modern and contemporary classical music, and an organist and choirmaster. Life and career Born in Žamberk in northeastern Bohemia, Eben spent most of his childhood an ...

(1929–2007) *

Ctirad Kohoutek Ctirad Kohoutek (18 March 1929 in Zábřeh, Czechoslovakia – 19 September 2011 in Brno, Czech Republic) was a contemporary Czech composer, music theorist, and pedagogue. Life In 1948–1949 he studied composition, musical theory and conducting ...

(1929–2011) * Marek Kopelent (1932–2023) *

Jan Klusák Jan Klusák (born 18 April 1934 in Prague as Jan Porges) is a contemporary Czech composer, author of film, television and incidental music. Life Klusák was born to a Czech Jewish family, who owned a farm in Prosek, Prague. After he graduated ...

(born 1934) *

Jiří Bárta Jiří Bárta (19 June 1935 – 4 January 2012) was a Czechs, Czech Piano, pianist and composer. Biography Jiří Bárta was born in Šumice (Uherské Hradiště District), Šumice, Uherské Hradiště District. In his youth, he studied piano wit ...

(1935–2012) *

Jiří Teml Jiří Teml (born 24 June 1935) is a Czech composer and radio producer. Born in Vimperk, Teml studied music theory and composition with Bohumil Dušek and Jiří Jaroch during the 1960s and early 1970s while working as an economist. His first ...

(born 1935) * Tomáš Svoboda (1939-2022) *

Jaroslav Krček Jaroslav Krček (born 22 April 1939) is a Czech radio producer, conductor, inventor of musical instruments and composer of classical and folk music. Biography Jaroslav Krček was born in Čtyři Dvory, today a part of České Budějovice in South ...

(born 1939) * Ivana Loudová (1941–2017) * Petr Kotík (born 1942) *

Otomar Kvěch Otomar Kvěch (25 May 1950 – 16 March 2018) was a Czech music composer and teacher. Biography Kvěch was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. His father was a sound engineer with Czechoslovak Radio, and later held technical jobs in various industrial ...

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