Music
- Elena Poletto (1906–1959), orchestral violist, respected composer
- Karel Ančerl (1908–1973) conductor, respected for his performances of contemporary music and particularly cherished for his interpretations of music by Czech composers
- Karel Berman (1919–1995) opera singer and composer
- Ignaz Brüll, composer and pianist
- Alexander Goldscheider (1950) composer and producer
- Alfred Grünfeld (1852–1924) pianist & composer
- Pavel Haas (1899–1944) composer
- Eduard Hanslick (1825–1904) music critic
- Gideon Klein (1919–1945) composer of classical music
- Eliška Kleinová (1912–1999) pianist, music educator, and was the sister of Gideon Klein
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer
- Hans Krása (1899–1944) composer
- Egon Ledeč (1889–1944) music composer
- Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), music composer and conductor, Czech-born
- Herbert Thomas Mandl (1926–2007) concert violinist, professor at the Janáček Academy of Music in Ostrava, Holocaust survivor who was a contemporary witness to the rich cultural life in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) ghetto.
- Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870) composer and piano virtuoso
- Zuzana Růžičková (1927 – ) contemporary harpsichordist, interpret of classical and baroque music
- Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942) composer and pianist
- Julius Schulhoff (1825–1898) pianist and composer
- Walter Susskind (1913–1980) conductor, Vilem Tausky, CBE, the noted Czech born composer/conductor,
- Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944) composer, conductor and pianist
- Jaromír Weinberger (1896–1967) composer
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—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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And deafening music shook the leaves; a troop
Shouldered a litter with a wounded man,
Or smote upon the string and to the sound
Sang of the beast that gave the fatal wound.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)