Famous People with Name Lubor

Lubor Kresák            Origin/Culture/Country: Europe

Lubor Kresák: was a Slovak astronomer.He discovered two comets: the periodic comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak and the non-periodic C/1954 M2 (Kresak-Peltier). He also suggested in 1978 that the Tunguska event was a fragment of the periodic comet Encke.

Lubor Bárta            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Lubor Bárta: was a Czech composer.Bárta studied musicology and aesthetics from 1946 to 1948 at Charles University in Prague and was a pupil of Jaroslav Rídký at the Academy of Performing Arts until 1952. While he was still a student he composed his first chamber works: Piano Variations, Three Polka Studies, Violin Sonata, Divertimento for Wind Quintet and String Quartet.[1] His early compositions were influenced by Stravinsky and Bartók, but he gradually came into his own compositional style, especially apparent in his instrumental works. From 1952 to 1955 he was an artistic leader of the ensemble Proud.[2] He subsequently lived as a teacher and freelance composer in Prague. Bartá died at the young age of forty-four.