Lubor Bárta

Lubor Bárta (8 August 1928 – 5 November 1972 in Prague) was a Czech composer. Life and career Bárta was born on 8 August 1928 in Lubná. He studied musicology and aesthetics from 1946 to 1948 at Charles University in Prague and was a pupil of Jaroslav Řídký at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague until 1952. While he was still a student, he composed his first chamber works: Piano Variations, Three Polka Studies, Violin Sonata, Divertimento for Wind Quintet and String Quartet. His early compositions were influenced by Stravinsky and Bartók, but he gradually came into his own compositional style, especially apparent in his instrumental works. From 1952 to 1955 he was an artistic leader of the ensemble Proud. He subsequently lived as a teacher and freelance composer in Prague. He composed three symphonies, concerti, string quartets, piano pieces, sonatas and other chamber music. Bárta died on 5 November 1972 in Prague, at the age of 44. Selected works ; Orchestral * Symphony No.1 (1955) * Concerto for chamber orchestra (1956) * (Dramatic Suite) (1958) * (From Eastern Bohemia), Symphonic suite (1960) * , Suite for chamber orchestra (1964) :# :# :# :# * Symphony No.2 (1969) * for str