Fran Lhotka was a Czech

Czech people

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-born Croatian

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 composer of classical music

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He was a student of Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Dvorák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...

. In 1909, he moved to Zagreb in what is now Croatia

Croatia

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He had three sons, Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski (1913-1987), also a composer., Nenad Lhotka, a ballet dancer/ballet master of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet (married to Alis Jill Morse) and Sasha Lhotka.

A very few of his many works include:

• String quartet
  String quartet
  A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...
  
   in G minor
  G minor
  G minor is a minor scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, and F. For the harmonic minor scale, the F is raised to F. Its relative major is B-flat major, and its parallel major is G major....
  
  (1911)
• The Devil in the Village (ballet in 8 scenes) (by 1935)
• Film People Will Survive (1947)(Zivjece ovaj narod)
• Concerto for Strings (by 1957)
• Frescoes, Three Symphonic Movements (1957)
• Film The Master of his Own Body (1957)(Svoga tela gospodar)
• Sljepačka for viola and piano (1960)
• Serenade for two flutes, clarinet and piano

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