Czech composer (1909–1978)
Václav Dobiáš (22 September 1909 – 18 May 1978) was a Czechoslovak composer.
Dobiáš was born inRadčice,Bohemia, Austria-Hungary on 22 September 1909. He studied inPrague withJosef Bohuslav Foerster and then at thePrague Conservatory underVítězslav Novák. Many of his early works show considerable influence fromfolk music. Later in his life he became interested inquarter tone composition, especially after studying withAlois Hába. After working in the Czech Ministry of Information, he became professor at thePrague Academy of Music in 1950. Some of his 1940s and 1950s works, especially hiscantatas, were written in praise of communism.[1] His work was also part of themusic event in theart competition at the1948 Summer Olympics.[2]
He died in Prague on 18 May 1978.
- String Quartet No. 1 (1931)
- Sonata for Violin and Piano (1936)
- String Quartet No. 2 (1936)
- Říkadla, Nonet (1938)
- String Quartet No. 3 (1938)
- Sonata for Cello and Piano (1939)
- Lento for 3 harps, 1940
- String Quartet No. 4 (1942)
- Pastorální dechový kvintet, wind quintet (1943)
- Ballade for Viola and Piano (1944)
- Little Suite for Cello and Piano (1944)
- 4 Nocturnes for Cello and Piano (1944)
- Quartettino for String Quartet (1944)
- Dance for Cello and Piano (1946)
- Taneční fantasie (Dance Fantasy), Nonet (1948)
- O rodné zemí, Nonet (1952)
- Suite for piano (1939)
- Concertino for violin (1941)
- Stalingrad, cantata (1945)
- Sinfonietta (1946)
- Slavnostní pochod (1948)
- Buduj vlast, posílíš mir (Build Your Country, Strengthen Peace), cantata (1950)
- Symphony No. 2 (1956–57)
- Festive Overture (1966)
- Don Randel.The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard, 1996, pp. 217–218.
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