List of Czech composers
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List of selected composers born or trained in Czechia.
Active in the Sixteenth Century
Active in the Sixteenth and early Seventeenth Century
Active in the Seventeenth Century
Active in the Seventeenth and early Eighteenth Century
Active in the Eighteenth Century
Active in Eighteenth Century and Early Nineteenth
Active in the Nineteenth Century
Active in the Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth
Active in the Twentieth Century
Active in the Twentieth Century and early Twenty-First
Active in the Sixteenth Century
- Jan BlahoslavJan BlahoslavJan Blahoslav 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 into Czech in 1564...
(1523-1571) - Jan Simonides MontanusJan Simonides MontanusJan Simonides Montanus was a Czech composer of Renaissance era . He was an Utraquist and belonged to favourite authors of the times. His works represent late 16th century Utraquist polyphony....
(1530-1540 to 1587) - Simon Bar Jona MadelkaSimon Bar Jona MadelkaSimon Bar Jona Madelka was a Czech composer. In addition to being a composer, he was also a respectable member of the butcher's guild in the city of Plzeň...
(1530-1550 to ~1598)
Active in the Sixteenth and early Seventeenth Century
- Jiří RychnovskýJiří RychnovskýJiří Rychnovský was a 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 polyphony, reveals a knowledge of European designs, but also the efforts of self expression...
(1545-1616) - Jan Trojan TurnovskýJan Trojan TurnovskýJan Trojan Turnovský was a Czech Renaissance composer. He became known in the second half of the 1570s. His compositions are included in the most important sources of the Utraquist polyphony music.- Biography :...
(before 1550-1606) - Pavel Spongopaeus JistebnickýPavel Spongopaeus JistebnickýPavel Spongopaeus Jistebnický was a Czech composer of Renaissance and early Baroque era. He worked as a teacher all his life...
(1560-1616) - Kryštof Harantz Polžic a BezdružicKryštof HarantKryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic was a Czech nobleman, traveller, humanist, soldier, writer and composer.As a composer he represented the school of Franco-Flemish polyphony in Bohemia...
(1564–1621) - Jan Campanus Vodňanský (1572–1622)
Active in the Seventeenth Century
- Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (~1600-1676)
- Alberik MazákAlberich MazakAlberich Mazak, also Alberik Mazák was an Czech-Austrian 17th century composer. He was born in Ratibor in Czech family. After studying Music and Philosophy, he entered Heiligenkreuz Abbey in 1631 and in 1633 he became a priest.-Works, editions and recordings:He created more than 300 compositions...
(1609-1661) - Pavel Josef VejvanovskýPavel Josef VejvanovskýPavel Josef Vejvanovský Czech composer and trumpeter. Contemporary and associate of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber.Some notable works by Pavel Josef Vejvanovský:...
(~1640-1693) - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704) (born Stráž pod Ralskem, 50 miles n. of Prague)
Active in the Seventeenth and early Eighteenth Century
- Václav Karel Holan RovenskýVáclav Karel Holan RovenskýVáclav Karel Holan Rovenský was Czech baroque composer and organist. He is sometimes called one of the most important composers in the hymnal tradition in Czechia.- Life and work :...
(~1644-1718) - Jan Ignác František VojtaJan Ignác František VojtaJan Ignác František Vojta was a Czech composer of Baroque music and the 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 the Týn quarter in Old Town of Prague. In his day, he was a recognized...
(cca 1660-before 1725)
Active in the Eighteenth Century
- Jan Dismas ZelenkaJan Dismas ZelenkaJan Dismas Zelenka , baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka and previously also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka, was the most important Czech Baroque composer, whose music was notably daring with outstanding harmonic invention and mastery of counterpoint.- Life :Zelenka was born in Louňovice pod Blaníkem, a small...
(1679–1745) - Bohuslav Matěj ČernohorskýBohuslav Matej CernohorskýBohuslav Matěj Černohorský was a Czech composer, organist and teacher of the baroque era...
(1684–1742) - Jan Josef Ignác BrentnerJan Josef Ignác BrentnerJan Josef Ignác Brentner , was a Czech composer of the baroque era.- Biography :...
(1689–1742) - Šimon BrixiŠimon BrixiŠimon Brixi was a Czech composer. He was the father of František Brixi.-Life:He was born in Vlkava u Nymburka. In 1720 he began to study law in Prague. He did not complete his studies, devoting himsef rather to music. His artistic activity was linked with the musical life in Prague...
(1693–1735) - František Antonín Václav MíčaFrantišek Václav MíčaFrantišek Antonín Václav Míča was a Czech conductor and composer.Míča was born in Třebíč. He conducted many opera performances for royal families...
(1694–1744) - Jan Václav Antonín StamicJohann StamitzJan Václav Antonín Stamic was a Czech composer and violinist. Johann was the father of Carl Stamitz and Anton Stamitz, also composers...
(generally known as Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz ; 1717–1757) - František Ignác TůmaFrantišek TumaFrantišek Ignác Antonín Tůma was an important Czech composer of the Baroque era...
(1704–1774) - Johann Baptist Georg NerudaJohann Baptist Georg NerudaRelative to other composers of the Classical music era Johann Baptist Georg Neruda is little known, and his dates of birth and death are only approximations. He was born in Bohemia, now part of Czech Republic, to a well-respected musical family...
(born Jan Křtitel Jiří Neruda; approx 1707-1780) - František BendaFranz BendaFranz Benda was a Czech violinist and composer. He was the brother of Jiří Antonín Benda, and he worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great....
(aka Franz Benda; 1709–1786) - Franz Xaver RichterFranz Xaver RichterFranz Xaver Richter, known as François Xavier Richter in France was an Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician who spent most of his life first in Austria and later in Mannheim and in Strasbourg, where he was music director of the cathedral...
(born in Moravia, 1709–1789) - Christoph Willibald GluckChristoph Willibald GluckChristoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years...
(for whom Czech was the first language) (1714–1787) - Jiří Antonín BendaGeorg BendaJiří Antonín Benda, also Georg Anton Benda or J.A. Benda was a Czech kapellmeister, violinist and composer of the classical period.-Biography:...
(aka George Benda; brother of Franz Benda; 1722–1795) - František Xaver PokornýFrantišek Xaver PokornýFrantišek Xaver Pokorný was a Czech Classical era composer and violinist.While young, he left his hometown for Regensburg where he studied violin playing with Joseph Riepel. In 1750 he went to Wallerstein where he played violin in the Oettingen-Wallerstein court orchestra...
(1729–1794) - Florian Leopold GassmannFlorian Leopold GassmannFlorian Leopold Gassmann 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 immediately before Mozart....
(1729–1774) - František KočvaraFrantisek KotzwaraFrantišek Kočvara, known later in England as Frantisek Kotzwara , was a Czech violist, virtuoso double bassistand composer. He is perhaps more famous for the notorious nature of his death.-Life and music:...
(1730–1791) - František Xaver DušekFrantišek Xaver DušekFrantišek Xaver Dušek , was a Czech composer and one of the most important harpsichordists and pianists of his time....
(1731–1799) - František BrixiFrantišek BrixiFrantišek Xaver Brixi was a Czech classical composer of the 18th century. His first name is sometimes given, by reference works, in its Germanic form: Franz.-Biography:...
(1732–1771) - Josef MyslivečekJosef MyslivecekJosef Mysliveček was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music...
(1737–1781) - Karel StamicCarl StamitzKarl Philipp Stamitz , who later changed his given name to Carl, was a German composer of partial Czech ancestry , and a violin, viola and viola d'amore virtuoso...
(1745–1801) - Jiří Ignác LinekJirí Ignác LínekJiří Ignác Línek was a renowned 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 literary brotherhood within Bohemia.- Life :He was born at Bakov nad Jizerou, Bohemia...
(1725–1791) - Antonio RosettiAntonio RosettiAntonio Rosetti was a classical era composer and double bass player, and was a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart....
(born Anton Rössler) (circa 1750-1792)
Active in Eighteenth Century and Early Nineteenth
- Jan Křtitel Vaňhal (1739–1813)
- Václav PichlWenzel PichlWenzel Pichl was a classical Czech composer of the 18th Century. He was also a violinist, music director and writer....
(1741–1805) - Jiří DružeckýGeorg DruschetzkyJiří Družecký was a Bohemian composer, oboist, and timpanist.He studied oboe with the noted oboist and composer Carlo Besozzi in Dresden. He then joined the band of an infantry regiment in Eger, with which he was later stationed in Vienna, Enns, Linz, and Branau. In 1777 he was certified as a...
(1745-1819) - Jan Václav StichGiovanni PuntoGiovanni Punto was a Czech horn player and a pioneer of the hand-stopping technique which allows natural horns to play a greater number of notes.He was an international celebrity in the 18th and early 19th centuries, known in London,...
(1746–1803) - Josef FialaJosef FialaJosef Fiala , was a composer, oboist, viola da gamba virtuoso, cellist, and pedagogue.He was born in Lochovice in Bohemia and began his professional career as an oboist in the service of Countess Netolicka. In 1777 he moved to Munich to serve in the court orchestra of Elector Maximilian Joseph...
(1748–1816) - Antonín KraftAntonín KraftAntonín Kraft was an Czech cellist and composer. He was a close friend of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven....
(1749–1820) - Václav MašekVáclav MašekVáclav Mašek is a Czech football player. He was a member of the Czechoslovakia national football team, for which he played 16 matches and scored 5 goals....
(1755–1833) - Pavel Vranický (1756–1808)
- Franz KrommerFranz KrommerFranz Krommer was a Czech composer of classical music, whose seventy-year life began the year of the death of George Frideric Handel and ended a few years after that of Ludwig van Beethoven.-Life:The main events of his life were somewhat as follows:* From 1773 to 1776,...
(1759–1831; born as František Kramář) - Jan Ladislav DussekJan Ladislav DussekJan Ladislav Dussek was a Czech composer and pianist. He was an important representative of Czech music abroad in the second half of 18th century and the beginning of 19th century...
(1760-1812) - Antonín VranickýAntonín VranickýAntonín Vranický , was a famous Czech violinist and composer of the 18th century. He was the brother of Pavel Wranitzky....
(1761–1820) - Jakub Jan RybaJakub Jan RybaJakub Šimon Jan Ryba was a Czech teacher and composer of classical music. His most famous work is Czech Christmas Mass "Hey, Master!" ....
(1765–1815) - Antonín RejchaAnton ReichaAnton Reicha was a Czech-born, later naturalized French composer. A contemporary and lifelong friend of Beethoven, Reicha is now best remembered for his substantial early contribution to the wind quintet literature and his role as a teacher – his pupils included Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz...
(1770–1836) - Wenzeslaus MatiegkaWenzel Thomas MatiegkaWenzel Thomas Matiegka was a Bohemian composer.Matiegka was born in the town of Choceň in a remote corner of the state of Bohemia, then part of the Habsburg Monarchy, under the Habsburg ruler Joseph II....
(1773-1830) - Václav Jan Tomášek (1774-1850)
- Johann Nepomuk HummelJohann Nepomuk HummelJohann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era.- Life :...
(1778–1837)
Active in the Nineteenth Century
- František DoubravskýFrantišek DoubravskýFrantišek Doubravský was a Czech composer, choirmaster and organist.Františrk Doubravský was a prolific composer of classicist era...
(1790-1867) - Jan Václav VoříšekJan Václav VoríšekJan Václav Hugo Voříšek , was a Czech composer of classical music, pianist, and organist.-Life:...
(1791-1825) - František ŠkroupFrantišek ŠkroupFrantišek Jan Škroup was a Czech composer and conductor. His brother Jan Nepomuk Škroup was also a successful composer and his father, Dominik Škroup, and other brother Ignác Škroup were lesser known composers.- Biography :At the age of eleven he moved to Prague where he supported himself as a...
(1801–1862) - Pavel KřížkovskýPavel KrížkovskýPavel Křížkovský was a Czech choral composer and conductor.Křížkovský was born in Kreuzendorf, Opava District, Austrian Silesia. He was a chorister in a monastery in Opava when young, and studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of University of Olomouc and later in Brno...
(1820–1885) - Hans Hampel (1822–1884)
- Bedřich SmetanaBedrich SmetanaBedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music...
(1824–1884) - Vilém BlodekVilém BlodekVilém Blodek 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...
(1834–1874) - Karel BendlKarel BendlKarel or Karl Bendl was a Czech composer.He studied at the organ school, where he met and befriended Antonín Dvořák one year before graduating with honors in 1858. By then he had already composed a number of small choral works...
(1838–1897) - Zdeněk FibichZdenek FibichZdeněk Fibich was a Czech composer of classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works , symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas , melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia,...
(1850–1900)
Active in the Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth
- Wilhelm KuheWilhelm KuheWilhelm Kuhe was a German pianist, pianoforte player and teacher, composer and administrator born in the city of Prague , in the first half of the nineteenth-century.-Life:...
(1823–1912) - Antonín DvořákAntonín DvorákAntonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
(1841–1904) - Leoš JanáčekLeoš JanácekLeoš Janáček was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by...
(1854–1928) - Josef Bohuslav FoersterJosef Bohuslav FoersterJosef Bohuslav Foerster was a Czech composer of classical music. He is often referred to as J. B. Foerster. The surname is sometimes spelled Förster.- Life :...
(1859–1951) - Gustav MahlerGustav MahlerGustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
(1860-1911; born in KalištěKalište (Pelhrimov District)Kaliště is a village and municipality of the Pelhřimov District in the Vysočina Region, Czech Republic. It is located at the watershed of the Želivka and Sázava rivers, about northwest of Humpolec. The population is about 330....
, Bohemia) - Emil VotočekEmil VotocekEmil Votoček 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:...
(1862–1950) - František DrdlaFrantisek DrdlaFrantišek Alois Drdla 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 Republic...
(1868–1944) - Ludvík ČelanskýLudvík CelanskýLudvík Vítězslav Čelanský was a Czech conductor and composer. He was founder and first principal conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.- Biography :...
(1870–1931) - Vítězslav NovákVítezslav NovákVítězslav Novák was one of the most well-respected Czech composers and pedagogues, almost singlehandedly founding a mid-century Czech school of composition...
(1870–1949) - Julius FučíkJulius Fucík (composer)Julius Arnost Wilhelm Fučík was a Czech composer and conductor of military bands.Fučík spent most of his life as the leader of military brass bands. He became a prolific composer, with over 300 marches, polkas, and waltzes to his name...
(1872–1916) - Josef SukJosef Suk (composer)Josef Suk was a Czech composer and violinist.- Life :Suk was born in Křečovice. He studied at Prague Conservatory from 1885 to 1892, where he was a pupil of Antonín Dvořák and Antonín Bennewitz. In 1898, he married Dvořák's eldest daughter, Otilie Dvořáková , affectionately known as Otilka...
(1874–1935) - Jan KubelíkJan KubelíkJan Kubelík was a Czech violinist and composer.-Biography:He was born in Michle . His father, a gardener by occupation, was an amateur violinist. He taught his two sons the violin and after discovering the talent of Jan, who was aged five at the time, arranged for him to study with Karel Weber and...
(1880–1940)
Active in the Twentieth Century
- Ladislav VycpálekLadislav VycpálekLadislav Vycpálek was a Czech composer and violist.Vycpálek studied composition under Vítězslav Novák. However, he very soon found his own expressive style. He mainly composed choral works. Prior to World War I, he occupied himself with setting Czech and German symbolist poetry to music, then he...
(1882–1969) - Václav KaprálVáclav KaprálVáclav Kaprál was a Czech pianist and composer.Kaprál studied composition with Leoš Janáček in the Brno Organ School and with Vítězslav Novák in Prague. Later, he studied piano interpretation with Alfred Cortot in Paris .Kaprál composed about fifty opuses, mainly solo piano, vocal, and chamber...
(1889–1947) - Bohuslav MartinůBohuslav MartinuBohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...
(1890–1959) - František Suchý (Prague composer) (1891–1973)
- Otakar JeremiášOtakar JeremiášOtakar Jeremiáš was a Czech composer, conductor and teacher. He was the son of composer Bohuslav Jeremiáš and the brother of composer Jaroslav Jeremiáš.-Life:...
(1892–1962) - Alois HábaAlois HábaAlois Hába was a Czech composer, musical theorist and teacher. He is primarily known for his microtonal compositions, especially using the quarter tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones and twelfth-tones....
(1893–1973) - Ervin Schulhoff (1894–1942)
- Pavel BořkovecPavel BorkovecPavel Bořkovec 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. His students there included Pavel Blatný, Jiří Pauer, Vladimír Sommer, Petr Eben, Jan Klusák and Jan Truhlář...
(1894–1972) - Sláva VorlováSláva VorlováSláva Vorlová was a Czech composer. She also used the pseudonym Mira Kord.-Biography:Slava Vorlova, née Miroslava Johnová, was born in Náchod...
(1894–1973) - František BrožFrantišek BrožFrantišek Brož was a Czech violist, composer, conductor and music educator.-Biography:Brož studied violin at the Prague Conservatory with Jindřich Baštař. He later studied composition with Josef Bohuslav Foerster and Vítězslav Novák, and conducting under Otakar Ostrčil and Václav Talich...
(1896–1962) - Jaromír WeinbergerJaromír Weinberger- Biography :Weinberger was born in Prague, from a family of Jewish origin. He heard Czech folksongs from time spent at his grandparents' farm as a youth. He started to play the piano at age 5, and was composing and conducting by age 10. He began musical studies with Jaroslav Křička. Later teachers...
(1896–1967) - Viktor UllmannViktor UllmannViktor Ullmann was a Silesia-born Austrian, later Czech composer, conductor and pianist of Jewish origin.- Biography :...
(1898–1944) - Pavel HaasPavel HaasPavel Haas 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 large, he is notable particularly for his song cycles and string quartets.-Pre-war:Haas...
(1899–1944) - František Suchý (Brno composer) (1902–1977)
- Iša KrejčíIša KrejcíIša Krejčí , was a Czech Neoclassicist composer, conductor and dramaturg.He was born in Prague. He studied history and musicology at Charles University and concurrently piano playing with Albín Šíma and composition at the Prague Conservatory with Karel Boleslav Jirák and Vítězslav Novák and...
(1904–1968) - Theodor SchaeferTheodor SchaeferTheodor Schaefer was a Czech composer of modern classical music and musical theorist.- Biography :...
(1904–1969) - Jaroslav JežekJaroslav JežekJaroslav Ježek was a Czech composer, pianist and conductor, author of jazz, classical, incidental and film music.- Life :...
(1906–1942) - Jiří Srnka (1907-1982)
- Václav TrojanVáclav TrojanVáclav Trojan 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. He continued his studies in the composition masterclasses of Alois Hába, Josef Suk and Vítězslav...
(1907–1983) - Miloslav KabeláčMiloslav KabelácMiloslav Kabeláč was a prominent Czech composer and conductor. Miloslav Kabeláč belongs to the foremost Czech symphonists, whose work can be compared with Antonín Dvořák or Bohuslav Martinů...
(1908–1979) - Jan Zdeněk BartošJan Zdenek BartošJan Zdeněk Bartoš was a Czech composer.- Biography :Bartoš started to play the violin as a pupil of Karel Hršel in Hradec Králové. In 1924, after he graduated from business school, Bartoš left for France. He played as a concertmaster of the Messageries Maritimes naval company in Marseille...
(1908–1981) - Jan Seidel (1908–1998)
- Klement SlavickýKlement SlavickýKlement Slavický was a Czech composer.-Biography:Slavicky studied under Karel Boleslav Jirák and Josef Suk. He was inspired by Moravian folk music and the works of Leoš Janáček...
(1910–1999) - Rafael KubelíkRafael KubelíkRafael Jeroným Kubelík was a Czech conductor and composer.-Early life:Kubelík was born in Býchory, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, today's Czech Republic. He was the sixth child of the Bohemian violinist Jan Kubelík, whom the younger Kubelík described as "a kind of god to me." His mother was a Hungarian...
(1914–1996) - Jan HanušJan HanušJan Hanuš was a prolific Czech composer of the 20th century. Almost every category of composition is represented among his works, many of which are overtly political, expressing in turn anti-Nazi, anti-Fascist and anti-Communist sentiments.-Biography:Hanuš studied composition independently with...
(1915–2004) - Emil HlobilEmil HlobilEmil Hlobil was a twentieth century Czechoslovakian composer and music professor based in Prague.-Biography:Hlobil was born in Veselí nad Lužnicí, but lived most of his life in Prague...
(1901-1987) - Vítězslava KaprálováVítezslava KaprálováVítězslava Kaprálová was a Czech composer and conductor. Among her teachers were some of the best European composers and conductors of the time - Bohuslav Martinů, Václav Talich, and Charles Münch.-Life:She was a daughter of composer Václav Kaprál...
(1915–1940) - Gideon KleinGideon KleinGideon Klein was a Czech pianist and composer of classical music, organizer of cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp.-Life:...
(1919–1945) - Jiří PauerJirí PauerJiří Pauer was a Czech composer.Pauer studied first with Otakar Šín, then from 1943 to 1946 at the Prague Conservatory with Alois Hába, and finally with Pavel Bořkovec at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He later taught for many years at the Academy where his pupils included composer...
(1919–2007) - Ludvík PodéšťLudvík PodéšťLudvík Podéšť, pseudonym Ludvík Binovský , was a Czech composer, conductor, music journalist and editor.-Life and career:...
(1921–1968) - Jan NovákJan NovákJan Novák was a popular Czech composer of classical music. Novák was primarily active in the 1960s and composed the music for several films of Karel Kachyňa...
(1921–1984) - Zdeněk LiškaZdenek LiškaZdeněk Liška was a Czech composer who produced a large of number film scores across a prolific career that started in the 1950s.Liška was born in Smečno...
(1922–1983) - Radim DrejslRadim DrejslRadim Drejsl 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 ideas of socialist realism in his music.- Biography :Drejsl was born in Dobruška...
(1923–1953) - Jiří HudecJiří Hudec (composer)Jiří Hudec was a Czech composer, conductor, arranger and organist.-Life:Hudec studied organ at the State Conservatory in Brno, under F. Michálek. In addition, he studied composing with Vilém Petrželka and conducting with Antonín Balatka. From 1944 to 1946, he also studied the piano privately under...
(1923–1996) - Lubor BártaLubor BártaLubor Bárta 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 Academy of Performing Arts until 1952...
(1928–1972) - Miloslav IštvanMiloslav IštvanMiloslav Ištvan 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 FišerLuboš FišerLuboš Fišer was a Czech composer, born in Prague. He was known both for his soundtracks and chamber music. From 1952 to 1956 he studied the composition at the Prague Conservatory as a pupil of Emil Hlobil. From 1956 he studied at the AMU in Prague...
(1935–1999) - Elena PetrováElena PetrováElena Petrová, née Krupková was a Czech composer. She was born in Modrý Kameň, and studied piano with Karel Hoffmeister and composition with Jan Kapr and Miloslav Istvan at the Janáček Academy of Music...
(1929–2002)
Active in the Twentieth Century and early Twenty-First
- Karel HusaKarel HusaKarel Husa is a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition...
(born 1921) - Ilja HurníkIlja HurníkIlja Hurník is a contemporary Czech composer and essayist. He entered the Prague Conservatory, then went on to the Prague Academy of Arts, where he studied with Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová, daughter of Vilém Kurz.His 1953 sonata da camera, for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord, has been recorded on...
(born 1922) - Viktor KalabisViktor Kalabis-Life:Born in Červený Kostelec, a town in the Czech Republic, on February 27, 1923, Kalabis was an important 20th century Czech composer. Viktor was interested in music from a young age, but due to the Nazi occupation of Prague during the Second World War, he was unable to study music in Prague...
(1923–2006) - Jiří Válek (1923–2005)
- Alois Pinos (1925–2008)
- Zdeněk LukášZdenek LukášZdeněk Lukáš was a prolific Czech composer having composed over 330 works. He graduated from a teachers' college and worked as a teacher from 1953 to 1963...
(1928–2007) - Antonín TučapskýAntonín TucapskýAntonín Tučapský is a Czech composer. Since 1975 he lives in Great Britain.-Biography:He was born in 1928 in Opatovice , Moravia, former Czechoslovakia. In 1947 he graduated from the Teachers’ Training College in Valašské Meziříčí. Tučapský studied in Brno before beginning his career as composer,...
(born 1928) - Petr EbenPetr EbenPetr Eben was a Czech composer of modern and contemporary classical music.-His life:Born in Žamberk in northeastern Bohemia, Eben spent his youth in Český Krumlov in southern Bohemia. There he studied piano, and later cello and organ...
(1929–2007) - Marek KopelentMarek KopelentMarek Kopelent is a renowned Czech contemporary composer, who is considered to be at the forefront of the "New Music" movement.-Biography:Kopelent was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on 28 April 1932...
(born 1932) - Jan KlusákJan KlusákJan Klusák is a contemporary Czech composer, author of film, television and incidental music.- Life :...
(born 1934) - Jiří TemlJiří TemlJiří Teml 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 major success as a composer came with his Fantasia appassionata for organ which...
(born 1935) - Leoš Faltus (born 1937)
- Tomáš Svoboda (born 1939)
- Jaroslav KrčekJaroslav KrcekJaroslav Krček is a Czech radio producer, conductor, inventor of musical instruments and composer of classical and folk music.- Biography :...
(born 1939) - Ivana LoudováIvana LoudováIvana Loudová is a Czech composer.Loudová was born at Chlumec nad Cidlinou. She studied at the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts under Miloslav Kabeláč and Emil Hlobil...
(born 1941) - Miloš Štědroň (born 1942)
- Milan Slavický (1947–2009)
- Otomar KvěchOtomar Kvěch-Biography:Kvěch was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. His father was a sound engineer with Czechoslovak Radio, and later held technical jobs in various industrial companies. Kvěch's mother was shop-assistant.In 1955 he had his first lessons in piano...
(born 1950) - Sylvie BodorováSylvie BodorováSylvie Bodorová is a Czech composer.-Biography:Bodorová studied composition at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno and as a post-graduate later on at the Music Academy in Prague...
(born 1954) - Vladimír HirschVladimír HirschVladimír Hirsch is a Czech avantgarde composer, integrating industrial and dark ambient music with modern classical composition. Besides creating solo works, he is the founding member and leader of Skrol, Aghiatrias and various other projects...
(born 1954) - Petr Kofroň (born 1955)
- Ivo Medek (born 1956)
- Jiří GemrotJiří GemrotJiří Gemrot is a Czech composer, radio executive, and a record producer. Since 1990 he has been director in chief of Czech Radio in Prague. As a composer, his music has been performed by all of the Czech Republic's major orchestras.Gemrot studied at the Prague Conservatory from 1972–1976 where he...
(born 1957) - Martin SmolkaMartin SmolkaMartin Smolka is a contemporary Czech composer of classical music.- Works :1983* Slzy ;1985-19881988* Music for Retuned Instruments;1989* Zvonění for solo percussion;* Nocturne;...
(born 1959) - Hanuš Bartoň (born 1960)
- Michal Rataj (born 1975)
External links
- Czech Music Information Centre List of 20th-century and contemporary composers, compiled and maintained by the Czech Music Information Centre (Prague)