- Karel Svoboda
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.Works
Karel Svoboda was born in
Prague ,Czechoslovakia (nowPrague ,Czech Republic ) 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 inPrague and for many Czech singers. In 1969 he wrote "Lady Carneval" forKarel Gott , a major Czech pop star. Svoboda wrote a total of 80 songs for Gott.Svoboda composed TV scores for the German channel
ZDF 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 areVicky the Viking ,Maya the Bee andThe Wonderful Adventures of Nils . He also composed the score for the movie Three Nuts for Cinderella.Svoboda wrote scores for almost 90 films and TV series.
He also wrote scores for several musicals:
* "Noc na Karlstejne"
* "Dracula", world premiere in Prague on 13th October, 1995
* "Monte Christo", 2000
* "Golem", 2006, book by Zdeněk ZelenkaSvoboda was found dead from gunshot wounds in the garden of his villa at
Jevany onJanuary 28 2007 . It is believed that he committedsuicide . [ [http://zpravy.idnes.cz/skladatel-karel-svoboda-se-zastrelil-dso-/domaci.asp?c=A070128_224742_domaci_ton iDnes] ]References
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* [http://www.musicabona.com/samples/su5494-2_1_23.mp3 Maya the Bee] mp3 sample.
* [http://www.karel-svoboda.cz/ Karel Svoboda website] cs icon
* [http://ceske-celebrity.cz/celebrity/s/svoboda-karel/ Karel Svoboda news] cs icon
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