Fran Lhotka

Who was Fran Lhotka?

Fran Lhotka was a Czech-born Croatian composer of classical music.

Lhotka was born in Mladá Vožice near Prague. He was a student of Antonín Dvořák. In 1909, he moved to Zagreb in what is now Croatia.

A very few of his many works include:

⁕Violin Concerto

⁕Piano Concerto

⁕Symphony

⁕String quartet in G minor

⁕The Devil in the Village

⁕Film People Will Survive

⁕Concerto for Strings

⁕Frescoes, Three Symphonic Movements

⁕Film The Master of his Own Body

⁕Sljepačka for viola and piano

⁕Serenade for two flutes, clarinet and piano

Fran Lhotka died in Zagreb.

He had three sons, Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski, also a composer; Nenad Lhotka, a ballet dancer/ballet master of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet; and Sasha Lhotka.