List of Czech composers

The following is a list of selected composers born or trained in the Czech lands.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

## Active in the 14th and 15th century

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* Domoslav (living at the turn of 13th and in the first half of 14th century)
* Jan of Jenštejn (1348–1400)
* Záviš of Zápy (c. 1350 – c. 1411)

## Active in the 16th century

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* Jan Blahoslav (1523–1571)
* Jan Simonides Montanus (1530–1540 – 1587)
* Simon Bar Jona Madelka (1530–1550 - c. 1598)

## Active in the 16th and early 17th century

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* Jiří Rychnovský (1545–1616)
* Jan Trojan Turnovský (before 1550–1606)
* Pavel Spongopaeus Jistebnický (1560–1616)
* Kryštof Harant (1564–1621)
* Jan Campanus Vodňanský (1572–1622)

## Active in the 17th century

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* Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (c. 1600 - 1676)
* Alberich Mazak (1609–1661)
* Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (c. 1640–1693)
* Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704)
* Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745)

## Active in the 17th and early 18th century

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* Václav Karel Holan Rovenský (c. 1644–1718)
* Jan Ignác František Vojta (c. 1660 - before 1725)
* Gottfried Finger (c. 1655–1730)

## Active in the 18th century

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* Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745)
* Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (1684–1742)
* Jan Josef Ignác Brentner (1689–1742)
* Josef Antonín Plánický (1691–1732)
* Šimon Brixi (1693–1735)
* František Václav Míča (1694–1744)
* František Jiránek (1698–1778)
* Johann Stamitz (1717–1757)
* František Tůma (1704–1774)
* Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (c.1707–1780)
* Franz Benda (1709–1786)
* Franz Xaver Richter (1709–1789)
* Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
* Wenceslaus Wodiczka (c.1715–1775)
* Josef Seger (1716–1782)
* Georg Benda (1722–1795)
* Joseph Anton Steffan (1726–1797)
* František Xaver Pokorný (1729–1794)
* Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729–1774)
* František Kotzwara (1730–1791)
* František Xaver Dušek (1731–1799)
* František Brixi (1732–1771)
* Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781)
* Carl Stamitz (1745–1801)
* Jiří Ignác Linek (1725–1791)
* Antonio Rosetti (c.1750–1792)
* Anton Stamitz (1750–c.1809)

## Active in the 18th century and early 19th century

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* Jan Antonín Koželuh (1738–1814)
* Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739–1813)
* Wenzel Pichl (1741–1805)
* Georg Druschetzky (1745–1819)
* Giovanni Punto (1746–1803)
* Leopold Koželuch (1747–1818)
* Josef Fiala (1748–1816)
* Antonín Kraft (1749–1820)
* Jan Křtitel Kuchař (1751–1829)
* Pavel Vranický (1756–1808)
* Joseph Gelinek (1758–1825)
* Franz Krommer (1759–1831)
* Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760–1812)
* Antonín Vranický (1761–1820)
* Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763–1850)
* Jakub Jan Ryba (1765–1815)
* Antonín Reicha (1770–1836)
* Wenzel Thomas Matiegka (1773–1830)
* Václav Jan Tomášek (1774–1850)

## Active in the 19th century

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* František Doubravský (1790–1867)
* Jan Václav Voříšek (1791–1825)
* Jan Kalivoda (1801–1866)
* František Škroup (1801–1862)
* Jan Nepomuk Škroup (1811–1892)
* Pavel Křížkovský (1820–1885)
* Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884)
* Josef Pischna (1826–1896)
* Vilém Blodek (1834–1874)
* Karel Bendl (1838–1897)
* Zdeněk Fibich (1850–1900)

## Active in the 19th century and early 20th century

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* Wilhelm Kuhe (1823–1912)
* Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
* Johann Pehel (1852–1926)
* Leoš Janáček (1854–1928)
* Bohumil Fidler (1860–1944)
* Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859–1951)
* Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
* Emil Votoček (1862–1950)
* František Drdla (1868–1944)
* Ludvík Čelanský (1870–1931)
* Vítězslav Novák (1870–1949)
* Julius Fučík (1872–1916)
* Josef Suk (1874–1935)
* Otakar Ostrčil (1879–1935)
* Jan Kubelík (1880–1940)

## Active in the 20th century

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* Rudolf Friml (1879–1972)
* Josef Karl Richter (1880–1933)
* Ladislav Vycpálek (1882–1969)
* Václav Kaprál (1889–1947)
* Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)
* Otakar Jeremiáš (1892–1962)
* Alois Hába (1893–1973)
* Ervin Schulhoff (1894–1942)
* Pavel Bořkovec (1894–1972)
* Sláva Vorlová (1894–1973)
* František Brož (1896–1962)
* Jaromír Weinberger (1896–1967)
* Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957)
* Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944)
* Pavel Haas (1899–1944)
* Adolf Strauss (1902–1944)
* Iša Krejčí (1904–1968)
* Theodor Schaefer (1904–1969)
* Jaroslav Ježek (1906–1942)
* Jiří Srnka (1907–1982)
* Václav Trojan (1907–1983)
* Miloslav Kabeláč (1908–1979)
* Jan Zdeněk Bartoš (1908–1981)
* Klement Slavický (1910–1999)
* Rafael Kubelík (1914–1996)
* Jan Hanuš (1915–2004)
* Emil Hlobil (1901–1987)
* Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915–1940)
* Gideon Klein (1919–1945)
* Jiří Pauer (1919–2007)
* Ludvík Podéšť (1921–1968)
* Jan Novák (1921–1984)
* Zdeněk Liška (1922–1983)
* Radim Drejsl (1923–1953)
* Jiří Hudec (1923–1996)
* Lubor Bárta (1928–1972)
* Miloslav Ištvan (1928–1990)
* Luboš Fišer (1935–1999)
* Elena Petrová (1929–2002)
* Milan Harašta (1919-1946)

## Active in the 20th century and early 21st century

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* Karel Husa (1921–2016)
* Ilja Hurník (1922–2013)
* Viktor Kalabis (1923–2006)
* Zdeněk Lukáš (1928–2007)
* Antonín Tučapský (1928–2014)
* Petr Eben (1929–2007)
* Karel Janovický (born 1930)
* Marek Kopelent (1932–2023)
* Jan Klusák (born 1934)
* Jiří Bárta (1935–2012)
* Jiří Teml (born 1935)
* Tomáš Svoboda (1939–2022)
* Jaroslav Krček (born 1939)
* Ivana Loudová (born 1941)
* Edvard Schiffauer (born 1942) [1]
* Otomar Kvěch (1950–2018)
* Sylvie Bodorová (born 1954)
* Jan Jirásek (born 1955)
* Jiří Gemrot (born 1957)
* Martin Smolka (born 1959)
* Vít Zouhar (born 1966)
* Sonja Vectomov (born 1979)
* Šimon Voseček (born 1978)

## Active in the 21st century

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## References

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1. ^ "Edvard Schiffauer (1942)".

## External links

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* Czech Music Information Centre List of 20th–century and contemporary composers, compiled and maintained by the Czech Music Information Centre (Prague)

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