List of Czech composers

List of Czech composers

List of over 70 composers born or trained in what is now the Czech Republic or Slovakia.

Active in the Seventeenth Century
* Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (~1600-1676)
* Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (~1640-1693)
* Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644- 1704) (born in Wartenberg, now Straz pod Ralskem, 50 miles n. of Prague)
* Jan Křtitel Tolar [Johannes Baptista Dolar] (fl Bohemia/Moravia, late 17th century)

Active in the Early or Middle Eighteenth Century
* Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
* Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (1684-1742)
* Šimon Brixi (1693-1735)
* Jan Václav Antonín Stamic (aka, Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz ; 1717-1757)
* František Ignác Tůma (1704-1774)
* Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (born Jan Křtitel Jiří Neruda; approx 1707-1780)
* František Benda (aka Franz Benda; 1709-1786)
* Franz Xaver Richter (born in Moravia, 1709-1789)

Active in the Middle or Late Eighteenth Century or Early Nineteenth
* Christoph Willibald Gluck (for whom Czech was the first language) (1714-1787)
* Jiří Antonín Benda (aka George Benda; brother of Franz Benda; 1722-1795)
* František Xaver Pokorny (1729-1794)
* František Xaver Dušek (1731-1799)
* František Brixi (1732-1771)
* Josef Mysliveček (1737-1781)
* Jan Křtitel Vaňhal (1739-1813)
* Wenzel Pichl (1741-1805)
* Karel Stamic (aka Carl Stamitz; son of Jan Stamic; 1745-1801)
* Josef Fiala (1748-1816)
* Antonín Kraft (1749-1820)
* Antonio Rosetti (born Anton Rössler) (circa 1750-1792)
* Václav Mašek (1755-1833)
* Pavel Vranický (1756-1808)
* Franz Krommer (1759-1831; born in Moravia as František Kramář)
* Antonín Vranický (1761-1820)
* Jakub Jan Ryba (1765-1815)
* Antonín Rejcha (aka Anton Reicha; 1770-1836)
* Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)

Active in the Nineteenth Century and/or Early Twentieth
* Pavel Křížkovský (1820-1885)
* Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884)
* Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
* Josef Labor (1842-1924)
* Zdeněk Fibich (1850-1900)
* Otakar Ševčík (1852-1934)
* Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)
* Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949)
* Julius Fučík (1872-1916)
* Josef Suk (1874-1935)
* Jan Kubelík (1880-1940)

Active in the Twentieth Century or Twenty-First
* Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959)
* Otakar Jeremiáš (1892-1962)
* Alois Hába (1893-1973)
* Jaromír Weinberger (1896–1967)
* Jaroslav Ježek (1906–1942)
* Václav Trojan (1907-1983)
* Miloslav Kabeláč (1908-1979)
* Jan Seidel (1908-1998)
* Klement Slavický (1910-1999)
* Rafael Kubelík (1914-1996)
* Jan Hanuš (1915-2004)
* Jiří Pauer (1919-)
* Jan Novák (1921-1984)
* Karel Husa (1921-)
* Ilja Hurník (1922-)
* Zdeněk Liška (1922-1983)
* Viktor Kalabis (1923-2006)
* Jiří Válek (1923-)
* Miloslav Ištvan (1928-1990)
* Antonín Tučapský (1928-)
* Petr Eben (1929-)
* Marek Kopelent (1932-)
* Luboš Fišer (1935-1999)
* Alexandre Rudajev b. 1935 in Prague; left in 1962; now in U.S.A.
* Tomas Svoboda b. 1939 in Paris; trained and lived in Prague 1946-64; now in U.S.A.
* Milan Slavický (1947-)
* Vladimír Hirsch (1954-)
* Hanuš Bartoň (1960-)
* Václav Kalous
* Sylvie Bodorová (1954-)
* Luke Kadlec (1980-)


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