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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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“In benevolent natures the impulse to pity is so sudden, that like instruments of music which obey the touch ... you would think the will was scarce concerned, and that the mind was altogether passive in the sympathy which her own goodness has excited. The truth is,—the soul is [so] ... wholly engrossed by the object of pity, that she does not ... take leisure to examine the principles upon which she acts.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation’s prayer ever in dumb music ascending.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)
“As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)