Death of leading Czech composer

Death of leading Czech composer

RIP

norman lebrecht

March 13, 2023

The modernist composer Marek Kopelent died yesterday at the age of 90.

Suppressed by the Communist regime and reduced to working as a pianist in a children’s dance school, he emerged from the Velvet Revlution as an adviser to President Vaclav Havel and as a mentor to a new generation of composers.

The French government named him Chevalier des arts et des lettres.

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