List of Czech composers

The following is a list of selected composers born or trained in the Czech lands.

Active in the 14th and 15th century

 * Domoslav (living at the turn of 13th and in the first half of 14th century)
 * Jan of Jenštejn (1348–1400)
 * Záviš of Zápy (c. 1350)

Active in the 16th century

 * Jan Blahoslav (1523–1571)
 * Jan Simonides Montanus (1530–1540 – 1587)
 * Simon Bar Jona Madelka (1530–1550 –c. 1598)

Active in the 16th and early 17th century

 * Jiří Rychnovský (1545–1616)
 * Jan Trojan Turnovský (before 1550–1606)
 * Pavel Spongopaeus Jistebnický (1560–1616)
 * Kryštof Harant (1564–1621)
 * Jan Campanus Vodňanský (1572–1622)

Active in the 17th century

 * Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (c. 1600 –1676)
 * Alberich Mazak (1609–1661)
 * Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (c. 1640–1693)
 * Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704)
 * Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745)

Active in the 17th and early 18th century

 * Václav Karel Holan Rovenský (c. 1644–1718)
 * Jan Ignác František Vojta (c. 1660 –before 1725)
 * Gottfried Finger (c. 1655–1730)

Active in the 18th century

 * Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745)
 * Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (1684–1742)
 * Jan Josef Ignác Brentner (1689–1742)
 * Josef Antonín Plánický (1691–1732)
 * Šimon Brixi (1693–1735)
 * František Václav Míča (1694–1744)
 * František Jiránek (1698–1778)
 * Johann Stamitz (1717–1757)
 * František Tůma (1704–1774)
 * Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (c.1707–1780)
 * Franz Benda (1709–1786)
 * Franz Xaver Richter (1709–1789)
 * Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
 * Wenceslaus Wodiczka (c.1715–1775)
 * Josef Seger (1716–1782)
 * Georg Benda (1722–1795)
 * Joseph Anton Steffan (1726–1797)
 * František Xaver Pokorný (1729–1794)
 * Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729–1774)
 * František Kotzwara (1730–1791)
 * František Xaver Dušek (1731–1799)
 * František Brixi (1732–1771)
 * Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781)
 * Carl Stamitz (1745–1801)
 * Jiří Ignác Linek (1725–1791)
 * Antonio Rosetti (c.1750–1792)
 * Anton Stamitz (1750–c.1809)

Active in the 18th century and early 19th century

 * Jan Antonín Koželuh (1738–1814)
 * Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739–1813)
 * Wenzel Pichl (1741–1805)
 * Georg Druschetzky (1745–1819)
 * Giovanni Punto (1746–1803)
 * Leopold Koželuch (1747–1818)
 * Josef Fiala (1748–1816)
 * Antonín Kraft (1749–1820)
 * Jan Křtitel Kuchař (1751–1829)
 * Pavel Vranický (1756–1808)
 * Joseph Gelinek (1758–1825)
 * Franz Krommer (1759–1831)
 * Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760–1812)
 * Antonín Vranický (1761–1820)
 * Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763–1850)
 * Jakub Jan Ryba (1765–1815)
 * Antonín Reicha (1770–1836)
 * Wenzel Thomas Matiegka (1773–1830)
 * Václav Jan Tomášek (1774–1850)

Active in the 19th century

 * František Doubravský (1790–1867)
 * Jan Václav Voříšek (1791–1825)
 * Jan Kalivoda (1801–1866)
 * František Škroup (1801–1862)
 * Jan Nepomuk Škroup (1811–1892)
 * Pavel Křížkovský (1820–1885)
 * Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884)
 * Josef Pischna (1826–1896)
 * Vilém Blodek (1834–1874)
 * Karel Bendl (1838–1897)
 * Zdeněk Fibich (1850–1900)

Active in the 19th century and early 20th century

 * Wilhelm Kuhe (1823–1912)
 * Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
 * Johann Pehel (1852–1926)
 * Leoš Janáček (1854–1928)
 * Bohumil Fidler (1860–1944)
 * Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859–1951)
 * Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
 * Emil Votoček (1862–1950)
 * František Drdla (1868–1944)
 * Ludvík Čelanský (1870–1931)
 * Vítězslav Novák (1870–1949)
 * Julius Fučík (1872–1916)
 * Josef Suk (1874–1935)
 * Otakar Ostrčil (1879–1935)
 * Jan Kubelík (1880–1940)

Active in the 20th century

 * Rudolf Friml (1879–1972)
 * Josef Karl Richter (1880–1933)
 * Ladislav Vycpálek (1882–1969)
 * Václav Kaprál (1889–1947)
 * Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)
 * Otakar Jeremiáš (1892–1962)
 * Alois Hába (1893–1973)
 * Ervin Schulhoff (1894–1942)
 * Pavel Bořkovec (1894–1972)
 * Sláva Vorlová (1894–1973)
 * František Brož (1896–1962)
 * Jaromír Weinberger (1896–1967)
 * Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957)
 * Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944)
 * Pavel Haas (1899–1944)
 * Adolf Strauss (1902–1944)
 * Iša Krejčí (1904–1968)
 * Theodor Schaefer (1904–1969)
 * Jaroslav Ježek (1906–1942)
 * Jiří Srnka (1907–1982)
 * Václav Trojan (1907–1983)
 * Miloslav Kabeláč (1908–1979)
 * Jan Zdeněk Bartoš (1908–1981)
 * Klement Slavický (1910–1999)
 * Rafael Kubelík (1914–1996)
 * Jan Hanuš (1915–2004)
 * Emil Hlobil (1901–1987)
 * Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915–1940)
 * Gideon Klein (1919–1945)
 * Jiří Pauer (1919–2007)
 * Ludvík Podéšť (1921–1968)
 * Jan Novák (1921–1984)
 * Zdeněk Liška (1922–1983)
 * Radim Drejsl (1923–1953)
 * Jiří Hudec (1923–1996)
 * Lubor Bárta (1928–1972)
 * Miloslav Ištvan (1928–1990)
 * Luboš Fišer (1935–1999)
 * Elena Petrová (1929–2002)

Active in the 20th century and early 21st century

 * Karel Husa (1921–2016)
 * Ilja Hurník (1922–2013)
 * Viktor Kalabis (1923–2006)
 * Zdeněk Lukáš (1928–2007)
 * Antonín Tučapský (1928–2014)
 * Petr Eben (1929–2007)
 * Karel Janovický (born 1930)
 * Marek Kopelent (1932–2023)
 * Jan Klusák (born 1934)
 * Jiří Bárta (1935–2012)
 * Jiří Teml (born 1935)
 * Tomáš Svoboda (1939–2022)
 * Jaroslav Krček (born 1939)
 * Ivana Loudová (born 1941)
 * Edvard Schiffauer (born 1942)
 * Otomar Kvěch (1950–2018)
 * Sylvie Bodorová (born 1954)
 * Jan Jirásek (born 1955)
 * Jiří Gemrot (born 1957)
 * Martin Smolka (born 1959)
 * Vít Zouhar (born 1966)
 * Sonja Vectomov (born 1979)
 * Šimon Voseček (born 1978)