Karel Svoboda (composer)

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Karel Svoboda
Karel Svoboda (left) in Athens 1969
Born	(1938-12-19)19 December 1938 Prague, Czechoslovakia
Died	28 January 2007(2007-01-28) (aged 68) Jevany, Czech Republic
Occupation	Composer
Years active	1963–2007
Spouse	Vendula Svobodová ​ (m. 1995)​

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.

Works

Karel Svoboda was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia and began his career as a pop composer after abandoning medicine in his third year of university. He became a member of the rock band "Mefisto" in 1963 where he played piano. Later, he composed music for the Laterna Magika theatre in Prague and for many Czech singers. In 1969 he wrote a song titled "Lady Carneval" for Karel Gott, a major Czech pop star. Svoboda wrote a total of 80 songs for Gott, including "Hej, Hej, Baby" [de] and "Die Biene Maja". His long-time collaborator was lyricist Jiří Štaidl [cs].

Svoboda composed TV scores for the German channel

Svoboda wrote scores for almost 90 films and TV series.

He also wrote scores for several musicals:

• "Noc na Karlštejně"
• "Dracula", world premiere in Prague on 13 October, 1995
• "Monte Christo", 2000
• "Golem", 2006, book by Zdeněk Zelenka

Svoboda was found dead from gunshot wounds in the garden of his villa at Jevany on January 28, 2007. It is believed that he committed suicide.^[1]

References

External links

• Karel Svoboda at
  IMDb