Czech Composer
1. Bedřich Smetana (1824)
Czech Composer
The father of Czech music. He was remembered for "The Battered Bride," an opera, and "Má vlast," a symphonic cycle.
2. Antonín Dvořák (1841)
Czech Composer
Czech classical-music composer who became known for his "New World" Symphony, the American String Quartets, and "Rusalka," an opera.
3. Erwin Schulhoff (1894)
Czech Composer
Ingenious composer and pianist whose career ended and was nearly forgotten because of the Nazi acquisition of power in Germany.
4. Pavel Haas (1899)
Czech Composer
Czech composer who was killed during the Holocaust. He was remembered for his song cycles and string quartets. He loved folk and jazz.
5. Luboš Sluka (1928)
Czech Composer
Luboš Sluka is a Czech Contemporary Composer.
6. Jiří Teml (1935)
Czech Composer
Jiří 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...
7. Jan Hanuš (1915)
Czech Composer
Jan 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 anti-National Socialist...
8. Martin Smolka (1959)
Czech Composer
Martin Smolka is a contemporary Czech composer of classical music.
9. Jan Jirásek (Unknow)
Czech Composer
Jan Jirásek is a Czech composer. Czech composer Jan Jirásek studied composition with Prof. Zdenek Zouhar at the Janáček Academy of Musical Art in Brno. He worked as music editor...
10. Dalibor Cyril Vačkář (1906)
Czech Composer
Dalibor Cyril Vačkář was one of the most popular contemporary Czech composers renowned throughout Czechoslovakia. Dalibor C.
11. Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (1600)
Czech Composer
Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic – literally Adam Václav Michna of Otradovice – was a Czech Catholic aristocrat poet composer hymn writer organist and choir leader of the early Baroque...
12. Jaroslav Kvapil (composer) (1892)
Czech Composer
Jaroslav Kvapil was a Czech composer teacher conductor and pianist. Born in Fryšták he studied with Josef Nešvera and worked as a chorister in Olomouc from 1902 to 1906. He...
