Name | Born | Died | | |
Jiri Rychnovsky | 1545 | 1616 | mayor of Czech town Chrudim, renaissance composer | |
Jan Sixt z Lerchenfelsu | 1550 | 1629 | remarkable Czech clergyman and late renaissance composer | |
Jan Campanus Vodnansky | 1572 | 1622 | Czech poet, scholar and composer of late renaissance period | |
Adam Vaclav Michna z Otradovic | 1600 | 1676 | the first famous Czech baroque composer; author of Czech Songbooks | |
Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky | 1640 | 1693 | Field Trumpeter in Kromeriz, a remarkable personality of Czech baroque music | |
Jan Antonin Losy, hrabe z Losimthalu | 1650 | 1721 | Czech lute player and composer with Swiss family roots | |
Jan Dismas Zelenka | 1679 | 1745 | the most famous Czech baroque composer, appreciated by J.S.B | |
Bohuslav Matej Cernohorsky | 1684 | 1742 | excellent organ player and top baroque composer | |
Jan Josef Ignac Brentner | 1689 | 1742 | Top Czech baroque composer | |
Frantisek Vaclav Mica | 1694 | 1744 | late baroque composer and conductor from Jaromerice | |
Jan Zach | 1699 | 1773 | famous organist and violinist in transition from Baroque to Classicism | |
Jiri Cart | 1708 | 1778 | Forgotten czech composer of the turning of Baroque and Classicism | |
Frantisek Benda | 1709 | 1786 | brilliant violinist and late baroque composer at the court of Prussian King Friedrich II | |
Frantisek Xaver Richter | 1709 | 1789 | composer, singer, violinist and pedagogue, main representative of Mannheim School | |
Peter P. Petko | 1713 | 1793 | slovakian composer, transition of baroque to classical music | |
Josef Seger | 1716 | 1782 | composer, organist and pedagogue of late baroque period | |
Jan Vaclav Antonin Stamic | 1717 | 1757 | pioneer of musical classicism, besides F.X.Richter main representative of Mannheim School | |
Josef Schreier | 1718 | | Moravian schoolmaster who composed folk operettas and church music | |
Paulin Bajan | 1721 | 1792 | Slovak franciscan priest, baroque composer and organist | |
Jiri Antonin Benda | 1722 | 1795 | famous Czech composer of the early classical period; founder of melodramas | |
Jiri Ignac Linek | 1725 | 1791 | pioneer of Czech classicism, schoolmaster in Bakov nad Jizerou | |
Frantisek Xaver Dusek | 1731 | 1799 | piano virtuoso and composer, friend of W.A.Mozart and his host in Prague | |
Fratinsek Xaver Brixi | 1732 | 1771 | top Czech composer of early classicism, bandmaster at St.Vitus Cathedral | |
Jozef Pantaleon Roskovsky | 1734 | 1789 | slovak composer and musician on the transition of baroque to classical period | |
Josef Myslivecek | 1737 | 1781 | probably the most famous Czech composer of 18th century. He worked in Italy ("Divine Czech") | |
Jan Krtitel Vanhal | 1739 | 1813 | famous Czech composer and pedagogue, representative of Vienna Classicism | |
Frantisek Gaudentius Leopold Dettelbach | 1739 | 1818 | Slovak composer of the break of baroque and classical perionds; Franciscan monk, teacher and organis | |
Karel Stamic | 1745 | 1801 | son of Jan Vaclav Stamic, excellent violinist, continuator of the Mannheim School tradition | |
Josef Fiala | 1748 | 1816 | prominent personality of European musical classicism; Mozart's friend, reputable cello and oboe virtuoso | |
Jan Krtitel Kuchar | 1751 | 1829 | top organ player, composer, friend and propagator of W.A.Mozart | |
Josef Rejcha | 1752 | 1795 | excellent cello player, composer and conductor, continuator of Mannheim School tradition | |
Karel Blazej Kopriva | 1756 | 1785 | excellent organist and composer from Citoliby Manor | |
Pavel Vranicky | 1756 | 1808 | violinist and important composer, friend of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven | |
Josef Jelinek | 1758 | 1825 | excellent piano player, Haydn's and Mozart's friend | |
Jan Ladislav Dusik | 1760 | 1812 | piano virtuoso and great composer of the transition of classicism to romantism | |
Antonin Vranicky | 1761 | 1820 | excellent violinist, composer (disciple of Haydn and Mozart) and pedagogue | |
Jakub Jan Ryba | 1765 | 1815 | schoolmaster from Rozmital, author of the popular Czech Christmas Mass (Hey, master!) | |
Antonin Rejcha | 1770 | 1836 | Czech composer of Classical and Early Romantic periods; Beethoven's friend, pioneer in usage of wind | |
Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek | 1774 | 1850 | composer and pedagogue, leading personality of Prague musical life in the 1st half of 19th century | |
Jan Nepomuk Hummel | 1778 | 1837 | Austrian composer, piano virtuoso and teacher born in Slovakia; child prodigy, pupil of Mozart and Haydn's | |
Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek | 1791 | 1825 | composer and musician, representative of the Austrian branch of Czech emigration of the transition of Classicism to Romanticism | |
Frantisek Skroup | 1801 | 1862 | musician, singer, conductor and composer of the Czech National Revival period, author of Czech national anthem | |
Josef Slavik | 1806 | 1833 | composer and excellent violinist, nicknamed Czech Paganini | |
Bedrich Smetana | 1824 | 1884 | Czech national composer | |
Jan Krtitel Knahl | 1825 | 1901 | composer and choirmaster of King's Chapel at Prague Castle | |
Vilem Blodek | 1834 | 1874 | Czech romantic composer, author of popular opera In the Well | |
Karel Bendl | 1838 | 1897 | Czech romantic composer, singer, conductor and teacher | |
Antonin Dvorak | 1841 | 1904 | the most popular Czech composer ever; director of National Conservatory in New York | |
David Popper | 1843 | 1913 | Czech cello player and composer of Jewish origin | |
Zdenek Fibich | 1850 | 1900 | important Cech romantic composer | |
Leos Janacek | 1854 | 1928 | together with A. Dvorak, the most appreciated Chech composer ever | |
Josef Klicka | 1855 | 1937 | composer of Late Romanticism, organ professor at Prague Conservatory | |
Josef Bohuslav Foerster | 1859 | 1951 | composer of the romantic period and its continuation in modern music of 20th century | |
Karel Kovarovic | 1862 | 1920 | composer and excellent conductor that made the Czech National Theatre Opera famous all over the world | |
Vitezslav Novak | 1870 | 1949 | one of the founders of Czech modern music, disciple of A.Dvorak | |
Josef Suk | 1874 | 1935 | composer of the transition of romanticism to modern music of XX.Century, disciple and son-in-law of A.Dvorak | |
Jaroslav Kricka | 1882 | 1969 | Notable composer of the 1st half of 20th century, conductor, musical pedagogue and columnist | |
Bohuslav Martinu | 1890 | 1959 | together with Janacek the most important Czech composer of the 20th Century | |
Otakar Jeremias | 1892 | 1962 | Notable Czech composer of the 1st half of 20th century, conductor, pedagogue | |
Alois Haba | 1893 | 1973 | pupil of V.Novak, one of the most courrageous avantgardists of Czech music ever | |
Ervin Schulhoff | 1894 | 1942 | Notable Czech composer and pianist of jewish origin | |
Emil Frantisek Burian | 1904 | 1959 | poet, stage director, composets of many styles and faces, pupil of J.B.Foerster | |
Isa Krejci | 1904 | 1968 | neoclassicist composer, conductor, musical director | |
Jaroslav Jezek | 1906 | 1942 | pupil of Josef Suk, author of the most famous songs of the Liberated Theatre and avant-garde works in classical style | |
Vaclav Trojan | 1907 | 1983 | czech composer, musican and pedagogue, pupil of V.Novak and A. Haba | |
Jan Cikker | 1911 | 1989 | co-founder of modern Slovak music | |
Otmar Macha | 1922 | 2006 | important composer of Czech contemporary music | |
Ilja Hurnik | 1922 | | prominent contemporary Czech composer, writer, pedagogue and popularizer | |
Viktor Kalabis | 1923 | 2006 | Czech composer, music editor and musicologist, husband of harpsichordist Zuzana Růžičková | |
Petr Eben | 1929 | 2007 | internationally recognized composer of contemporary music (often on religious and children's themes) | |
Lubos Fiser | 1935 | 1999 | Composer of contemporary classical and film music | |
Dusan Martincek | 1936 | 2006 | recognized Slovak contemporary composer, pianist and pedagogue | |
Stepan Rak | 1945 | | excellent Czech guitarist and composer | |
Peter Martincek | 1962 | | Slovak composer, pedagogue, conductor | |