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