Year of Birth - Death :1906 - 1984 † BIOGRAPHY The name of Vackar is very popular throughout Czechoslovakia. There is hardly a community in the whole country where they would not know the name of Vaclav Vackar, a composer of popular music - waltzes, marches, serenades and songs - which formed a permanent part of the repertoire regularly broadcasted on the radio and were played by many village wind-bands and brass orchestras. His son, Dalibor C. Vackar received from him the best musical education available at that time. D. C. Vackar studied composition at the Prague Conservatory unde…
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