Václav Kučera

Václav Kučera (born 29 April 1929 in Prague) was studying at the Charles University in Prague (1948-51) musicology, aesthetics, philology, and in Moscow at theTchaikovski Conservatoire (1951-56) composition with Vissarion Shebalin and musicology with L.A.Maazel, V.A.Zuckerman, N.V.Tumanina et al. Graduated with the dance drama “The Brigands’ Fire” and a dissertation about Leos Janacek.

As composer, Kucera has always been more and more concentratedly heading from his admiration for Janacek, Stravinsky and Prokofiev and from an affort to express the character of Czech and Moravian melodiousness towards a modern musical idiom and individual style synthesising expressiveness with New Music compositional technology.

Kucera’s entire work includes more than 150 titles of music in different genres inclusive electronics.

literature: Dohnalová, Lenka: Estetické modely evropské elektroakustické hudby a elektroakustická hudba v ČR (Praha 2001). CD-R Katalog české elektroakustické artificiální hudby (Praha 2001; zde soupis skladeb s popisy a zvukovými incipity).