Václav Dobiáš

Václav Dobiaš ( born September 22, 1909 in Radočice, † May 22, 1978 in Prague) was a Czech composer.

Dobiaš studied in Prague with Josef Bohuslav Foerster and Vítězslav Novák. Since 1950, he taught as a professor of composition at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts. He composed two symphonies, an overture, a Sinfonietta, chamber works, cantatas, song cycles and songs.

Works

• Chamber Music (Selection) String Quartet No. 1 (1931 )
• Sonata for Violin and Piano ( 1936)
• String Quartet No. 2 (1936 )
• Rikadla [ nursery rhymes ], 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 Violin 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 fantasy [ Tanzfantasie ], Nonet (1948 )
• O Rødne Zemi [ From the home country ], Nonet (1952 )