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Václav Smetáček

Václav Smetáček (30 September 1906 – 18 February 1986) was a Czech conductor, composer and oboist. Life and career Smetáček was born on 30 September 1906 in Brno. He studied in Prague among others

Václav Smetáček (30 September 1906 – 18 February 1986) was a Czech conductor, composer and oboist. Life and career Smetáček was born on 30 September 1906 in Brno. He studied in Prague among others with Jaroslav Křička, conducting with and , musicology, aesthetics, and philosophy at Charles University, receiving his doctorate in musicology in 1933. He was the founder and a member of the Prague Wind Quintet (1928), for whom he also composed and arranged compositions. Smetáček died on 18 February 1986 in Prague. References

Era
20th Century
Lived
1906–1986
From
Czechoslovakia
Born in
Brno · died Prague
Known as
composer, conductor, oboist, pedagogue, musicologist, university teacher
Instruments
oboe
Genres
classical music

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.