František Gregor Emmert

František Gregor Emmert (19 May 1940 – 17 April 2015) was a Czech composer of classical and incidental music. Biography Emmert’s ancestors came from the north of Bavaria, in the area around Weiden, Waldmünchen, and Ippesheim. Their history is documented in the local books until the beginning of the 17th century. Gregor Emmert, father of the composer, was born in Bavaria, and the Emmert family moved to Bohemia after World War I. Emmert was born in Mstišov, today a part of Dubí near Teplice in North Bohemia. In 1954, he went to study in Prague. He graduated from High School of Music Education and went on to take classes at the Prague Conservatory in piano, under Lev Esch, and composition, privately under Jan Zdeněk Bartoš. Later he continued his composition studies at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (JAMU) in Brno, under Jan Kapr and Miloslav Ištvan. After his graduation in 1975, he started to teach composition at JAMU himself. As a Catholic, Emmert was never a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. He represented an alternative to the “Compositional School of Brno” (rationally and numerically composed music by Miloslav Ištvan and Alois Piňos), and many lat