Karel Svoboda (19 December 1938 – 28 January 2007) was a Czech composer of popular music. He wrote music for many TV series in the 1970s.

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Karel Svoboda was born in

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and began his career as a pop composer after abandoning medicine in his third year of university. He became a member of the rock band "Mefisto" in 1963 where he played piano. Later, he composed music for the ''Laterna Magica'' theatre in

and for many Czech singers. In 1969 he wrote ''Lady Carneval'' for Karel Gott, a major Czech pop star. Svoboda wrote a total of 80 songs for Gott. Svoboda composed TV scores for the German channel

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for over 30 years. He wrote the scores to many TV series in the 1970s that a whole generation of Europeans grew up with. Some examples of these TV series are

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, Maya the Bee and The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. He also composed the score for the movie

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. Svoboda wrote scores for almost 90 films and TV series. He also wrote scores for several musicals: * "Noc na Karlštejně" * "

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", world premiere in Prague on 13 October, 1995 * "Monte Christo", 2000 * "Golem", 2006, book by Zdeněk Zelenka Svoboda was found dead from gunshot wounds in the garden of his villa at

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on January 28, 2007. It is believed that he committed

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