Vladimír Franz
Czech composer, painter, professor and university educator
Vladimír Franz (born 25 May 1959 in Prague, Czechoslovakia), is a Czech composer, painter, university scholar and occasional journalist, poet and playwright. Since the mid-1980s, he has composed stage music for more than 150 theatre performances—for many of which he was awarded national-level prizes. He has also composed a symphony, several operas, oratorios, a musical, a ballet, film music, and music for documentaries and radio plays. His second main area of activities in the field of arts is represented by painting. Since 1991 he has been a lecturer at the Prague's Faculty of Theatre. In 2012 he was also a registered candidate in the 2013 Czech presidential election. The attention of local and global media has been focused on him due to his extraordinarily extensive tattoos.
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Box sets & recent recordings
- Vladimir Horowitz - Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon — Vladimir Horowitz, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Moritz Moszkowski (2010) box set · 100 tracks Spotify
- "062 Classical Nuances": La Plaine — Ignaz Friedman, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Edvard Grieg, Aram Khachaturian, Franz Schubert, Richard Wagner, Sergei Prokofiev, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Alexander Scriabin, Gabriel Fauré (2026) box set · 62 tracks Spotify
- Philippe Entremont: Grieg, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Highlights from The Complete Piano Concerto Recordings — Edvard Grieg, Franz Liszt, Gabriel Fauré, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Manuel de Falla, Vincent d'Indy, Philippe Entremont (2025) box set · 40 tracks Spotify
- Horowitz Plays Liszt — Franz Liszt, Vladimir Horowitz (1930) box set · 33 tracks Spotify
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