Karel Svoboda

Svoboda intrigues me as a Prague composer who poured his gift into 1970s television rather than the concert hall, with Dracula among his signature works. The Czech lands gave the world Smetana and Dvořák, and there is something I find charming about an heir to that melodic tradition delivering tunes straight into living rooms. Screen composers rarely get their names remembered, yet they quietly colonize our memories with themes we hum without knowing whose they are. Conductor, songwriter, score writer, he wore many hats. As long as his music keeps playing, he is not really gone, and I like that kind of legacy.

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Name (English)

Karel Svoboda

Name (Japanese)

カレル・スヴォボダ

Reading

かれる・すゔぉぼだ

Born

December 19, 1938 – January 28, 2007

Origin

Prague, Czech Republic

Occupation

composer / songwriter / film score composer / musician / conductor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Tiger

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.karel-svoboda.cz
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel%20Svoboda%20(composer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A9%E3%83%9C%E3%83%80
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q356687

Tags

• composer
• songwriter
• film score composer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.