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Václav Smetáček
Václav Smetáček is credited on 1,125 releases across 175 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1952–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,125
Credits
175
Albums
8
Decades active
4
In collections
Biography
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Czech conductor, chorus master, composer, oboist, musicologist, educator.
Born September 30, 1906 in Brno (former Austro-Hungarian Empire), died February 18, 1986 in Prague (former Czechoslovakia).
Founder and member of the Prague Wind Quintet, for whom he also arranged and composed. Member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra 1930–1933. From 1934 to 1943, he worked for the Czech Radio as conductor and editor, after 1945 as pedagogue at the Prague Conservatory and Academy of Performing Arts. Conductor and promoter of the Prague Symphony Orchestra (FOK) from the 1930s until 1972.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
1,125 releases · 175 albums · active 1952–2025
- Performance · 1,258
- Other credits · 70
Studios: House Of Artists · Smetana Hall · Supraphon Studio At The House Of Artists · Supraphon Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Prague Symphony Orchestra
- Beethoven
- Carl Orff
- Frédéric Chopin
- Mendelssohn
- Antonín Dvořák
- Josef Suk
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