Pavel Bořkovec was a Czech composer and music teacher.

Bořkovec studied at the Prague Conservatory

Prague Conservatory

Prague Conservatory, sometimes also Prague Conservatoire, in Czech Pražská konzervatoř, is a Czech secondary school in Prague dedicated to teaching the arts of music and theater acting.- Instruction :...

 under Josef Suk

Josef Suk (composer)

Josef Suk was a Czech composer and violinist.- Life :Suk was born in Křečovice. He studied at Prague Conservatory from 1885 to 1892, where he was a pupil of Antonín Dvořák and Antonín Bennewitz. In 1898, he married Dvořák's eldest daughter, Otilie Dvořáková , affectionately known as Otilka...

. From 1946 to 1967 he taught at the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague

Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague is a university level school of music, dance, drama, film, TV and multi-media studies.- Faculties :*Film and TV School - FAMU*Music Faculty - HAMU*Theatre Faculty - DAMU-Notable alumni:...

. His students there included Pavel Blatný, Jiří Pauer

Jirí Pauer

Jiří Pauer was a Czech composer.Pauer studied first with Otakar Šín, then from 1943 to 1946 at the Prague Conservatory with Alois Hába, and finally with Pavel Bořkovec at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He later taught for many years at the Academy where his pupils included composer...

, Vladimír Sommer

Vladimir Sommer

Vladimír Sommer was a Czech composer from Dolní Jiřetín near Most.Sommer began his studies at the Prague Conservatory, where he studied violin with Bedřich Voldan and composition with Karel Janeček. He then continued his education at the Academy of Arts and Music with Pavel Bořkovec...

, Petr Eben

Petr Eben

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, Jan Klusák

Jan Klusák

Jan Klusák is a contemporary Czech composer, author of film, television and incidental music.- Life :...

 and Jan Truhlář. Among his compositions are two opera

Opera

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s, two piano concerto

Piano concerto

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s, a concerto grosso

Concerto grosso

The concerto grosso is a form of baroque music in which the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists and full orchestra...

, a ballet

Ballet

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, and five string quartets.

Selected works

Stage

• Krysař, Ballet-Pantomime in 2 scenes (1939)
• Paleček, Opera (1959)
• Satyr, Opera after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...
  
   (1942)

Orchestra

• Concerto for cello and orchestra (1952)
• Concerto No.1 for piano and orchestra (1931)
• Concerto No.2 for piano and orchestra (1949–1950)
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
• Concerto grosso (1942)
• Partita per grande orchestra (1936)
• Sinfonietta in uno movimento (1967–1968)
• Symphony No.1, Op.6
• Symphony No.2 (1955)
• Symphony No.3 (1959)

Chamber music

• Dva tance, Tango a Menuet (2 Dances, Tango and Minuet) for saxophone (violin ad lib.) and piano
• Intermezzo for horn (or cello) and piano (1965)
• Nonet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and double bass (1940–1941)
• Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1932)
• Sonata for viola solo, Op.12 (1933)
• Sonata No.1 for violin and piano (1934)
• Sonata No.2 for violin and piano (1956)
• Sonatina for violin and piano (1942)
• String Quartet No.1 (1925)
• String Quartet No.2, Op.7
• String Quartet No.3
• String Quartet No.4 (before 1948)
• String Quartet No.5 (1961)

Piano

• Suite for Piano (1931)
• Dvě klavírní skladby (2 Piano Pieces)

Vocal

• Jen jedenkrát, Melodrama on a poem by P. Bezruče
• 7 Písní na básně Vítězslava Nezvala (7 Songs on Poems of Vítězslav Nezval
  Vítezslav Nezval
  Vítězslav Nezval was one of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the twentieth century and a co-founder of the Surrealist movement in Czechoslovakia....
  
  ) for soprano and piano, Op.15
• Rozmarné písně for baritone and piano (1932)
• Šest písní pro detský sbor (6 Songs for Children's Chorus) on poems by Jaroslav Seifert
  Jaroslav Seifert
  Jaroslav Seifert was a Nobel Prize winning Czech writer, poet and journalist.Born in Žižkov, a suburb of Prague in what was then part of Austria-Hungary, his first collection of poems was published in 1921...
  
  (1949)
• Sny (Dreams), 7 Songs for alto and orchestra