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:
“There was never yet such a storm but it was Æolian music to a healthy and innocent ear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“And in the next instant, immediately behind them, Victor saw his former wife.
At once he lowered his gaze, automatically tapping his cigarette to dislodge the ash that had not yet had time to form. From somewhere low down his heart rose like a fist to deliver an uppercut, drew back, struck again, then went into a fast disorderly throb, contradicting the music and drowning it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)