Ladislav Vycpálek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ladislav Vycpálek

Czech composer

Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1882

Place of Birth: Vršovice, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 09-Jan-1969

Profession: composer, violist

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Ladislav Vycpálek (Vršovice, Prague, 23 February 1882 – Prague, 9 January 1969) was a Czech composer and violist. Vycpálek studied composition under Vítezslav Novák.
However, he very soon found his own expressive style.
He mainly composed vocal and choral works.
Prior to World War I, he occupied himself with setting Czech and German symbolist poetry to music, then he drew inspiration from folk poetry.
After the war, he turned towards a more humanistic philosophical reflection, creating three well-known cantatas: Cantata of the Last Things of Man (Kantáta o posledních vecech cloveka, 1920–22), Blessed Be Man (Blahoslavený clovek ten, 1933), and the Czech Requiem (Ceské requiem, 1940).