Biography
Zdeněk Lukáš (1928-2007) was born on the 21st August 1928 in Prague. He is a contemporary classical music composer from Czech Republic. Eventhough he did not have any musical education at that time, he was able (at the age of seven) to write down musical score of the songs his mother sang to him. When he was 14 years old he had written a musical score for theatre play for Strašnické Divadlo v Praze.
After Second World War he was a teacher at the elementary school. In the 60s a 70s he became a respectable choir leader. After a huge success in 1972 in the Choir competition in Barcelona, the official Czech communistic regime with its Secret State Police (STB) started to chase him. From that time on (till Velvet Revolution at 1989) his work was banned from official concert halls. Nowadays he is respected composer of choral music - e.g. “Cultis Amoris, Op. 136”, “Miserere mie, Op. 144”, “Dies Irae, Op. 274” and he is well-known for his chamber music, too. His fifth Symphony is favoured by musical critics, too.
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In 1996 Zdeněk Lukáš with three other composers (Sylvie Bodorová, Luboš Fišer and Otmar Mácha) created musical fellowship Quatrro. Fišer, Mácha and Lukáš died recently.
Zdeněk Lukáš died at the age of 79 on Friday the 13th in July 2007.
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