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Czech, of Czech parentage or in Czechia (Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia) born composers of all historical periods. The survey content composers of classical music and artistically beneficial composers...

CZECH COMPOSERS (tag: czech composers)

Czech, of Czech parentage or in Czechia born composers of all historical periods. The survey content composers of classical music and artistically beneficial composers of another genres with classical programm influence or with creative contribution to it.

List of composers:

Active in the Sixteenth Century
Šimon Bar Madelka (1530-1550 to ~1598)
Jan Trojan Turnovský (before 1550-1606)

Active in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century
Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic (1564-1621)

Active in the Seventeenth Century
Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (~1600-1676)
Josef Antonín Plánický (1691-1732)
Václav Karel Holan Rovenský (~1644-1718)
Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (~1640-1693)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644- 1704)

Active in the Early or Middle Eighteenth Century
Jan Benda (1713–1752)
Jan Josef Ignác Brentner (1689-1742)
Šimon Brixi (1693-1735)
Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (1684-1742)
Franz Xaver Richter (1709-1789)
Jan Václav Antonín Stamic (generally known as Johann Stamitz; 1717-1757)
František Ignác Antonín Tůma (1704-1774)
Jan Zach (1699-1773)
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)

Active in the Middle or Late Eighteenth Century or Early Nineteenth
Jiří Antonín Benda (1722-1795)
František Benda (1709-1786)
František Xaver Brixi (1732-1771)
Jiří Družecký (1745-1819)
Jan Ladislav Dusík (1761-1812)
František Xaver Dušek (1731-1799)
Josef Fiala (1748-1816)
Vojtěch Jírovec (1763–1850)
Jan Antonín Koželuh (1738-1814)
Leopold Kozeluch (Jiří Antonín Leopold Koželuh, 1747–1818)
Antonín Kraft (1749-1820)
František Kramář (1759-1831)
Jiří Ignác Linek (1725-1791)
Václav Mašek (1755-1833)
Wenceslaus Matiegka (1773-1830)
Josef Mysliveček (1737-1781)
Václav Pichl (1741-1805)
František Xaver Pokorný (1729-1794)
Antonio Rosetti (1750-1792)
Karel Stamic (Carl Stamitz; 1745-1801)
Jan Václav Stich (aka Giovanni Punto; 1746-1803)
Antonín Vranický (1761-1820)
Pavel Vranický (1756-1808)
Antonín Rejcha (known also as Anton Reicha; 1770-1836)
Jakub Jan Ryba (1765-1815)
Jan Křtitel Vaňhal (Johann Baptist Vanhal, 1739-1813)

Active in the Nineteenth Century and/or Early Twentieth
Vilém Blodek (1834–1874)
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Zdeněk Fibich (1850-1900)
Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859-1951)
Julius Fučík (1872-1916)
Pavel Křížkovský (1820-1885)
Jan Kubelík (1880-1940)
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Oskar Nedbal (1874–1930)
Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949)
Otakar Ostrčil (1879-1935)
Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884)
Josef Suk (1874-1935)
František Škroup (1801-1862)
Václav Jan Tomášek (1774-1850)
Jan Václav Voříšek (1801-1825)

Active in the Twentieth Century
Karel Ančerl (1908-1973)
Luboš Fišer (1935-1999)
Pavel Haas (1899-1944)
Alois Hába (1893-1973)
Jan Hanuš (1915-2004)
Miloslav Ištvan (1928-1990)
Otakar Jeremiáš (1892-1962)
Jaroslav Ježek (1906–1942)
Miloslav Kabeláč (1908-1979)
Viktor Kalabis (1923-2006)
Václav Kaprál (1889-1947)
Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915-1940)
Gideon Klein (1919-1945)
Iša Krejči (1904-1968)
Ernst Křenek (mainly written Krenek, 1900-1991)
Rafael Kubelík (1914-1996)
Zdeněk Liška (1922-1983)
Otmar Mácha (1922-2006)
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959)
Jan Novák (1921-1984)
Theodor Schaefer (1904-1969)
Ervín Schulhoff (1894-1942)
Klement Slavický (1910-1999)
Václav Trojan (1907-1983)
Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944)
Sláva Vorlová (1894-1973)
Ladislav Vycpálek (1882-1969)
Jaromír Weinberger (1896–1967)

Active in the Twentieth Century and/or Early Twenty-First
Hanuš Bartoň (1960-)
Iva Bittová (1958-)
Sylvie Bodorová (1954-)
Petr Eben (1929-2007)
Leoš Faltus (1937-)
Vladimír Franz (1959-)
Vladimír Hirsch (1954-)
Ilja Hurník (1922-)
Karel Husa (1921-)
Jan Klusák (1934-)
Petr Kofroň (1955-)
Marek Kopelent (1932-)
Ivana Loudová (1941-)
Ivo Medek (1956-)
Jiří Pauer (1919-2007)
Alois Piňos (1925-2008)
Miroslav Pudlák (1960-)
Michal Rataj (1975-)
Milan Slavický (1947-2009)
Martin Smolka (1959 -)
Miloš Štědroň (1942-)
Antonín Tučapský (1928-)
Emil Viklický (1948-)

Recent Journals

Antonín Dvořák / Stabat Mater, op.58 by JanBlanicky | 12 Jan 2008 | 1 comment
Vladimír Hirsch / The Assent To Paradoxon (7 CD boxset) by JanBlanicky | 13 May 2009 | Add comment
Integrated music of composer Vladimír Hirsch by JanBlanicky | 7 Jun 2007 | Add comment

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anacarolins wrote:
19 days ago

Hello! What can you tell me about Samuel Capricornus?

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hailmarduk666 wrote:
21 days ago

Wow, I never knew that Mahler was a Czech...Learn something new every day! I have been hooked on Dvořák since I was a child, and have recently discovered Smetana and a host of others from a friend's list of recommended composers. Hail to Czechia for such beautiful and amazing music! Slava!

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flunderhering wrote:
September 2009

Thank you barokera for your shout regarding Brentner

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barokera wrote:
September 2009

Jan Josef Ignác Brentner - podívejte se na tohoto skladatele http://www.answers.com/topic/jan-josef-ign-c-brentner

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megatrax wrote:
September 2009

Sure! I'll join! :o)

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Gamester wrote:
September 2009

Joined this group with great respect and admiration for the unique talents of Chech composers! :o)

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