Florentina Mallá was a Czech composer and pianist. She studied piano with Josef Jiranek at the Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

 Conservatory, graduating in 1913 and later studied composition privately with Vitezslav Novak

Vítezslav Novák

Vítězslav Novák was one of the most well-respected Czech composers and pedagogues, almost singlehandedly founding a mid-century Czech school of composition...

. She suspended her work as a composer during the Communist years. Her works include didactic piano compositions, a sonatina and preludium for piano and about fifty songs. She died in Prague.