List of selected composers born or trained in the Czech lands. 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 ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravian traditional music, Moravia and his native Bohemia, following t ...

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

Renaissance

* Jan Blahoslav (1523–1571) * Jan Simonides Montanus (1530/1540–1587) * Simon Bar Jona Madelka (1530/1550–~1598) * Jiří Rychnovský (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 Czech composer of the Renaissance and early Baroque era. He worked as a teacher all his life. He took several different posts and in 1598, at the ...

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

Baroque

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

(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 Czechs, Czech-Moravian composer and trumpeter of the Baroque music, Baroque period. Life Vejvanovský was born probably in Hlučín (possibly in Hukvaldy), probably in 1639 or 1640 (1633 i ...

(~1640–1693) *

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (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 left his employer, Prince-Bishop ...

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

Václav Karel Holan Rovenský Václav Karel Holan Rovenský (1644, Rovensko pod Troskami – 27 February 1718, Rovensko pod Troskami) was Czech baroque composer and organist. Life and work Rovenský had been organist in Turnov and Rovensko pod Troskami (where he was also ca ...

(~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 (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 ''Laud ...

(1684–1742) * Jan Josef Ignác Brentner (1689–1742) *

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

(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 Rep ...

(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 (Czech: ', – ) was a Czech classical composer, violinist and cellist. Life Neruda's dates of birth and death (taken from the '' Grove Dictionary'') are only approximations. He was born in Kingdom of Bohemia, ...

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

František Benda František () is a masculine given name of Czech origin. It is a cognate of Francis, Francisco, François, and Franz. People with the name include: *Frank Daniel (František Daniel) (1926–1996), Czech film director, producer, and screenwriter ...

(a.k.a. Franz Benda; 1709–1786) * Franz Xaver Richter (born in Moravia, 1709–1789) * Jan Václav Antonín Stamic (generally known as Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz ; 1717–1757) *

Jiří Antonín Benda Georg Anton Benda ( cz, Jiří Antonín Benda, italic=no, link=no; 30 June 17226 November 1795) was a composer, violinist and Kapellmeister of the Classical period (music), classical period from the Kingdom of Bohemia. Biography Born into a Bend ...

(a.k.a. George Benda; brother of Franz Benda; 1722–1795) * Jiří Ignác Linek (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'' immed ...

(1729–1774) * František Xaver Pokorný (1729–1794) * František Kočvara (1730–1791) * František Xaver Dušek (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 co ...

(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 comp ...

(1737–1781) * Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739–1813; born Jan Ignatius Vaňhal) *

Václav Pichl Václav Pichl (25 September 1741 – 23 January 1805; known in German as Wenzel Pichl) was a Czech classical composer of the 18th century. He was also a violinist, music director and writer. Pichl was born at Bechyně, Bohemia. His first musical ...

(1741–1805) *

Josef Bárta Josef Bárta, also Josef Bartha, (1744 in Prague - 13 June 1787 in Vienna ) was a Czech composer. Bárta was a priest and organist at the Salvator Church in Prague. He then moved to Vienna. In addition to three operas and a singspiel, Bárta wrote ...

(1744–1787) *

Jiří Družecký Jiří Družecký (german: Georg Druschetzky, also known as Giorgio Druschetzky, also Druzechi, Druzecky, Druschetzki, Držecky, Truschetzki; 7 April 1745, Jemníky – 21 June 1819, Budapest) was a Czech composer, oboist, and timpanist. Life and c ...

(1745–1819) * Karel Stamic (1745–1801) * Jan Václav Stich (1746–1803) * Leopold Koželuch (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 ...

(1748–1816) * Antonín Kraft (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, ...

(born Anton Rössler) (c. 1750–1792) * Pavel Vranický (1756–1808) *

Franz Krommer Franz Krommer ( cz, František Vincenc Kramář; 27 November 1759 in Kamenice u Jihlavy – 8 January 1831 in Vienna) was a Czech composer of classical music and violinist. He was one of the most popular composers in the 19th century Vienna. ...

(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 composer and pianist. He was an important representative of Czech music ...

(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. He ...

(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 teacher and composer of classical music. His most famous work is '' Czech Christmas Mass "Hey, Master!"'' (''Česká mše ...

(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 reme ...

(1770–1836) *

Wenzeslaus Matiegka Wenzel Thomas Matiegka (Czech: ''Václav Tomáš Matějka''; baptized 6 July 1773 – 19 January 1830) was a Czech composer and one of the most celebrated guitarists of the 19th century. Life Wenzel Thomas Matiegka was born in the town of Choceň ...

(1773–1830) * Václav Jan Tomášek (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 ten ...

(1790–1867) * Jan Václav Voříšek (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 other ...

(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 at age of eight, and at age fifteen he travelled to Prague to study piano and composition ...

(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 (1824–1884) * Vilém Blodek (1834–1874) *

Karel Bendl Karel Bendl, or german: Karl Bendl, 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 ...

(1838–1897) * Zdeněk Fibich (1850–1900) *

Wilhelm Kuhe Wilhelm may refer to: People and fictional characters * William Charles John Pitcher, costume designer known professionally as "Wilhelm" * Wilhelm (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname Other uses * Mount ...

(1823–1912) *

(1841–1904)

Modern/Contemporary

* Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) *

Bohumil Fidler Bohumil Fidler (also Fiedler) (May 27, 1860 - June 2, 1944) was a Czech people, 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 ...

(1860–1944) * Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859–1951) *

Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian 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 the modernism ...

(1860–1911; born in

Kaliště Kaliště or Kalište may refer to places: Czech Republic * Kaliště (Jihlava District), a municipality and village in the Vysočina Region *Kaliště (Pelhřimov District), a municipality and village in the Vysočina Region *Kaliště (Prague-Eas ...

, Bohemia) *

Karel Kovařovic Karel Kovařovic (Prague, 9 December 1862 Prague, 6 December 1920) was a Czech composer and conductor. Life From 1873 to 1879 he studied clarinet, harp and piano at the Prague Conservatory.''Dopisy o životě hudebním i lidském, p. 484'' He ...

(1862–1920) * Emil Votoček (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 Re ...

(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 c ...

(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 Josef Suk may refer to: * Josef Suk (composer) (1874–1935), Czech composer and violinist * Josef Suk (violinist) (1929–2011), his grandson, Czech violinist and conductor {{Hndis, Suk, Josef ...

(1874–1935) * Jan Kubelík (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 (1919–1 ...

(1889–1947) *

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

(1890–1959) * Otakar Jeremiáš (1892–1962) * Alois Hába (1893–1973) *

Ervin Schulhoff Erwin Schulhoff ( cs, Ervín Šulhov; 8 June 189418 August 1942) was an Austro-Czech composer and pianist. He was one of the figures in the generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the ...

(1894–1942) * Pavel Bořkovec (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 mov ...

(1894–1973) *

František Brož František Brož (10 April 1896 in Prague – 21 July 1962 in Prague) was a Czechs, Czech Viola, violist, composer, Conducting, conductor and music educator. Biography Brož studied violin at the Prague Conservatory with Jindřich Baštař. He l ...

(1896–1962) * Jaromír Weinberger (1896–1967) * Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944) * Pavel Haas (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 Theodor Schaefer (23 January 1904, in Telč – 19 March 1969, in Brno) was a Czechs, Czech composer and pedagogue. Life Theodor Schaefer was born in Telč on 23 January 1904. During 1922–1926, he studied composition with Jaroslav Kvapil and c ...

(1904–1969) * Jaroslav Ježek (1906–1942) * Václav Trojan (1907–1983) *

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

(1908–1979) *

Jan Zdeněk Bartoš Jan Zdeněk Bartoš (4 June 1908, Dvůr Králové nad Labem – 1 June 1981, Prague) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Biography Bartoš started to play the violin as a pupil of Karel Hršel in Hradec Králové. In 1924, after he graduated from busi ...

(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 Jan Kapr (12 March 1914, in Prague – 29 April 1988, in Prague) was one of the most prolific Czech composers of the second half of the 20th century. Life He studied at the Prague Conservatory, as a pupil of Jaroslav Řídký, and at the master ...

(1914–1988) * Rafael Kubelík (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 of ...

(1915–1940) *

Gideon Klein Gideon Klein (6 December 1919 – c. January 1945) was a Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakian pianist, european classical music, classical music composer, educator and organizer of cultural life at Theresienstadt concentration camp. Life Klein was bor ...

(1919–1945) * Jiří Pauer (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. Hi ...

(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 ...

(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 people, Czech composer whose work was inspired by the works of Béla Bartók and by the orientation of the modal style of Folk music, folk songs. He studied Rom ...

(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 The Prague Conservatory ...

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

Karel Janovický Karel Janovický (born 18 February 1930) is a Czech composer, pianist, BBC producer and administrator who has lived in the UK since 1950, one of the youngest of the group of European émigré composers who came to live and work in Britain during t ...

(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 t ...

(1921–2016) * Ilja Hurník (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, but ...

(1923–2006) *

Jindřich Feld Jindřich Feld (February 19, 1925 in Prague, Czechoslovakia – July 8, 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic) was a Czech composer of classical music. Feld was born into a musical family, his father a well-known professor of violin at the Prague Con ...

(1925–2007) *

Zdeněk Lukáš Zdeněk Lukáš (21 August 1928 in Prague – 13 July 2007 in Prague) was a prolific Czech composer who authored over 330 works. He graduated from a teachers' college and worked as a teacher from 1953 to 1963. He was a musical editor and progr ...

(1928–2007) *

Antonín Tučapský Antonín Tučapský (27 March 1928, Opatovice – 9 September 2014, London) was a Czech composer. From 1975 until his death he lived in Great Britain. Biography Tučapský was born in 1928 in Opatovice (part of Vyškov) in former Czechoslovakia. ...

(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. His life Born in Žamberk in northeastern Bohemia, Eben spent most of his childhood and early ad ...

(1929–2007) * Ctirad Kohoutek (1929–2011) *

Marek Kopelent Marek Kopelent (born 28 April 1932) is a 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. From 1951 to 1955 he studied musi ...

(1932–2023) * Jan Klusák (born 1934) *

Jiří Bárta Jiří Bárta (19 June 1935 – 4 January 2012) was a Czech pianist and composer. Biography Jiří Bárta was born in Šumice, Uherské Hradiště District. In his youth, he studied piano with organist and composer Emil Hába (1900–1982). He ...

(1935–2012) * Jiří Teml (born 1935) * Tomáš Svoboda (born 1939) *

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 Ivana Loudová (8 March 1941 – 25 July 2017
) was a Czech composer. L ...

(1941–2017) *

Petr Kotík Petr Kotik (surname originally Kotík) (born January 27, 1942, in Prague) is a composer, conductor and flutist living in New York City. He was educated in Europe ( Prague Conservatory, graduated 1961; Vienna Music Academy, graduated 1966; AMU Prag ...

(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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