COMPOSER

Karel Svoboda

1938 - 2007

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Karel Svoboda (19 December 1938 – 28 January 2007) was a Czech composer of popular music. He wrote music for many TV series in the 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Svoboda is the 551st most popular composer (down from 487th in 2019), the 256th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 227th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Karel Svoboda ranks 551 out of 1,451Before him are John Adams, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, Arno Babajanian, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, and Leo Brouwer. After him are Johann Strauss III, Péter Eötvös, Giacinto Scelsi, Luigi Rossi, Johann David Heinichen, and Bernd Alois Zimmermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Karel Svoboda ranks 151Before him are Willy Claes, Aslan Abashidze, Rocco Granata, Zbigniew Religa, Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, and Oscar Robertson. After him are Bill Withers, David Baltimore, Vasyl Stus, Patrick Bauchau, Violetta Villas, and Anne Perry. Among people deceased in 2007, Karel Svoboda ranks 113Before him are Ian Stevenson, François-Xavier Ortoli, Teddy Kollek, Michel Lotito, Wally Schirra, and Gordon Scott. After him are Maurice Papon, Mika Špiljak, Steve Fossett, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Ulrich Mühe, and Colin McRae.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Svoboda ranks 256 out of 1,200Before him are Petr Ginz (1928), Johannes Widmann (1460), Vilém Mathesius (1882), Antonín Mrkos (1918), Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia (1075), and Jan Fischer (1951). After him are Margrave Andrew of Burgau (1558), Josef Kadraba (1933), Wojciech Żywny (1756), Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein (1842), Franz Bardon (1909), and Erhard Raus (1889).

Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Karel Svoboda ranks 24Before him are Ignaz Moscheles (1794), Zdeněk Fibich (1850), Leopold Koželuch (1747), Vítězslav Novák (1870), Franz Xaver Richter (1709), and Erwin Schulhoff (1894). After him are Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729), Pavel Haas (1899), Alois Hába (1893), František Brixi (1732), Oskar Nedbal (1874), and Paul Wranitzky (1756).