Czech Composers


Baroque

    Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber  (1644–1704) (violin virtuoso important for development of violin music)

    Jan Dismas Zelenka  (1679–1745)


Classical era

    Franz Xaver Richter (born in Moravia, 1709–1789)  (important early symphony composer in Mannheim, Germany)

    Jan Václav Antonín Stamic (known as Johann Stamitz)  (1717–1757)  (important early symphony composer in Mannheim, Germany)

     František Xaver Dušek  (1731–1799)

     Josef Mysliveček  (1737 - 1781)  (mentor to Mozart)

     Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739 – 1813)

     Karel Stamic  (1745–1801)  (aka Carl Stamitz, son of Jan Stamitz)

     Jan Ladislav Dussek  (1760–1812)


Romantic

     Václav Jan Tomášek  (1774–1850)

     Jan Václav Voříšek   (1791–1825)

     Bedřich Smetana  (1824–1884)

     Antonín Dvořák  (1841–1904)


Modern/Contemporary

      Leoš Janáček  (1854–1928)

      Josef Bohuslav Foerster  (1859–1951)

      Gustav Mahler (1860–1911; born in Kaliště, Bohemia)  

       Josef Suk  (1874–1935)

       Bohuslav Martinů  (1890–1959)

        Alois Hába  (1893–1973)

        Pavel Haas (1899–1944)

        Rafael Kubelík  (1914–1996)  (more known as a conductor)

        Vítězslava Kaprálová  (1915–1940)

        Jiří Pauer  (1919–2007)

        Zdeněk Liška  (1922–1983)

        Luboš Fišer  (1935–1999)

        Elena Petrová  (1929–2002)

        Antonín Tučapský  (1928–2014)

        Marek Kopelent  (born 1932)



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