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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)

Active in the 20th century and early 21st century

• 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)
• Otomar Kvěch (1950–2018)
• Sylvie Bodorová (born 1954)
• Vladímir Hirsch (born 1954)
• Jan Jirásek (born 1955)
• Jiří Gemrot (born 1957)
• Martin Smolka (born 1959)
• Vít Zouhar (born 1966)
• Sonja Vectomov (born 1979)

Active in the 21st century

• Vladímir Hirsch (born 1954)

External links

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