Otomar Kvěch

Otomar Kvech ( born May 25, 1950 in Prague) is a Czech composer and music educator.

Kvech had from the age of five in piano and music lessons and attended from 1959 a state music school. From 1963, he had three years of teaching with Jan Zdeněk Bartos; at this time first compositions were created (including a string quartet and a symphony ). From 1965 he studied at the Prague Conservatory under Josef Kunbáň organ, composition with Raichl, František Kovaříček and JZ Bartos and counterpoint and harmony with Zdeněk Hůla.

From 1969 Kvech attended the composition class of Jiří Pauer at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 1973 he completed his studies with an organ symphony. He worked at this time as a coach at the National Theatre and stood as a composer in close contact with peers composers such as Vladimír Tichý, Miroslav Kubička, Pavel Jeřábek, Stepan Rak, Juraj Filas and Jiří Gemrot.

1976 Kvech music editor at Tcschechoslowakischen broadcasting. His compositions have been performed in the week of the new creation when boys podium in Carlsbad and at the Prague Spring, appeared in print and on records. In 1980 he was Sekretät of Czech Composers' Union. In the 1990s, he again took on a job at the Czechoslovak Radio as an editor and playwright, he also began at the Prague Conservatory to teach music theory and composition.

Among other Kvech composed five symphonies, nine string quartets, three violin and four organ sonatas, several song cycles, oratorios, a mass and a requiem.