The Film Music of Luboš Fišer

Abstract

Luboš Fišer (1935–1999) was a prominent and original composer of the twentieth century. All his life, he worked as a freelance composer of classical music and film music. He combined these two fields, and in both he won a number of Czech and international awards. The article surveys Fišer’s film music from four decades (1960s–1990s) in the context of the music of other Czech composers, and it relies on the collection of source material from Luboš Fišer’s estate kept at the Czech Museum of Music, which was subjected to continuous comparison with available film databases. Fišer collaborated with important Czech film directors and took part in making many television series. He was able to compose original music for any film genre and to make his music into a dramaturgically substantive, full-fledged component of a cinematographic work.