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Karel Svoboda
real name Karel Richard Svoboda
Prague, Czech Republic · 1938-12-19 – 2007-01-28
Karel Svoboda is credited on 2,249 pressings across 591 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1965–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
2,249
Credits
591
Albums
7
Decades active
7
In collections
Biography
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Czech composer, keyboardist, producer. Born December 19, 1938 in Prague (former Czechoslovakia), died January 28, 2007 in Jevany (Czech Republic).
Karel Svoboda began his career as a pop composer after abandoning medicine in his third year of university, becoming a member of the beat band Mefisto in 1963 where he played piano. Later, he composed music for the Laterna Magika Theatre in Prague and for various Czech vocalists. In 1968 he composed “Lady Carneval” for Karel Gott, a major Czech pop star. Svoboda wrote a total of 80 songs for Gott.
Svoboda composed TV scores for the German channel ZDF for over 30 years. He wrote the scores to many TV series in the 1970s that a whole generation of Europeans grew up. Some examples of these TV series are “Vicky the Viking”, “Maya the Bee” and “The Wonderful Adventures of Nils”. Svoboda wrote scores for almost 90 films and TV series.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
2,249 releases · 591 albums · active 1965–2025
- Other credits · 2,117
- Performance · 1,842
- Production · 20
- Engineering · 6
Studios: Mozarteum · Studio Dejvice · Filmkunst Musikverlag · Elektrovox
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Karel Gott
- Helena Vondráčková
- Waldemar Bonsels
- Carlo Collodi
- Selma Lagerlöf
- Hana Zagorová
- Runer Jonsson
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