Music
- Jan Balatka conductor, founder of the Milwaukee Musical Society.
- Renee Fleming, opera singer.
- Rudolf Firkusny, pianist of note.
- Rudolf Friml, composer of operettas.
- Jan Hammer, musician, film music composer; Mahavishnu Orchestra keyboardist.
- Karel Husa, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.
- Maria Jeritza (orig. Marie Jedlickova), b. Brno, Moravia, a famed Metropolitan Opera singer, known for her role as Sieglinda, Elisabeth, Santuzza, Fedora, Rosalinda, Carmen, Salome, Octavius, Tosca and Turandot.
- Tomas Kalnoky, Prague-born lead guitarist/vocalist of New Jersey ska punk band Streetlight Manifesto
- Jerome David Kern, of Bohemian ancestry on his mother' side (Fanny Kakeles), one of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", etc.
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold, a Brno-born Hollywood composer.
- Ivan Kral, musician and director.
- Bohumil Makovsky, band leader
- Jason Mraz, Singer-Songwriter.
- Jarmila Novotná, opera singer.
- Rudolf Serkin, eminent pianist.
- George Szell, prominent conductor and composer of Cleveland Orchestra.
- Miroslav Vitouš, musician (Weather Report bassist).
- Jaromír Weinberger, composer.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.”
—Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)
“The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)
“Yankee Doodle, keep it up,
Yankee Doodle, dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.”
—Richard Shuckburg (1756–1818)