Karel Svoboda

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Karel Svoboda (born 19 December 1938 in Plzeň, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic) is a Czech composer of popular music. He wrote the music for many TV series in the 1970s.

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Maya the Bee and her friends Willy and Flip the Grasshopper

Karel Svoboda began his career as a pop composer after leaving the studies of medicine in his third year. He became a member of the rock band "Mefisto" in the 1950s. Later, he composed music for the Laterna Magica theatre in Prague and for many Czech singers. In 1969, he wrote "Lady Carneval" for Karel Gott who was to become a major Czech pop star. Svoboda wrote a total of 80 songs for him.

Svoboda composed TV scores for the German channel ZDF for over 30 years. He wrote the scores to many TV series in the 1970s that a whole generation of Europeans grew up with. Some examples of these TV series are Vicky the Viking, Maya the Bee and The Wonderful Adventures of Nils.

Svoboda has written the scores for about 900 films and TV series.