Svatopluk Havelka

Svatopluk Havelka (born 2 May 1925 – 24 February 2009) was a Czech composer. Biography Svatopluk Havelka was born in the village of Vrbice in the North Moravian region of Czechoslovakia. He studied composition privately with Karel Boleslav Jirák from 1945 to 1947, while a student of musicology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University under Josef Hutter and Antonín Sychra. Havelka subsequently became a member of the music department of Czechoslovak Radio in Ostrava. At the same time he was the founder and artistic director of the NOTA Ensemble (1949–1950). His wife was the actress Libuše Havelková, with whom he had a son, musician and actor Ondřej Havelka. Havelka died on 24 February 2009 in Prague. Selected list of works * The Rose of Wounds. Songs for a middle voice and piano (also for orchestra) to texts by Baroque poets, 1944, CHF, o PA 8’ * Night Music for orchestra, 1944, manuscript 20’ * Suite for Small Orchestra, 1947, manuscript 16’ * Symphony No. 1, 1956, SU, o Su 42’ * Four Music-dramatic Suites to texts of Moravian folk poetry for solo voice, chamber ensemble, reciter, voiceband and chamber orchestra - 1948, 1949, 1951 - manuscript each 30’ * Spring. Vocal Rhap