Florentina Mallá (14 July 1891 – 7 June 1973) was a Czechoslovak composer and pianist. She studied piano with Josef Jiránek at the

Prague Conservatory The Prague Conservatory () is a public music school in Prague, Czech Republic, founded in 1808. Currently, the school offers four- or six-year courses, which can be compared to the level of a high school diploma in other countries. Graduates c ...

. After graduating in 1913, she studied composition privately with

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 ...

. She stopped composing during the

communist Communism () is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, di ...

years. Her works include didactic piano compositions, a sonatina and preludium for piano and about fifty songs. She died in Prague.

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