Sunday Music Show Karel Mareš - Czech pop-music composer
Karel Mareš, photo: Czech Television
In today’s Sunday Music Show we will feature the greatest hits by the
Czech pop-music composer Karel Mareš who died last month at the age of 84.
A composer, lyricists, pianist, screenplay writer, theatre and film
director, theatre manager as well as an occasional actor, this
inconspicuous “man at the back” had a significant influence on the
development of Czech popular music of the 1960s. During his career spanning
over half a century he wrote some 300 songs but he also discovered a number
of young talents who later became real stars, including the country’s
best-loved singer Karel Gott.
