Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915 – 1940)
Vítězslava Kaprálová was born in Brno, Austria-Hungary which is now part of the Czech Republic. Her father was a composer and her mother was a singer. She studied music in Brno, Prague, and Paris. In her 20s, she conducted the Czech Philharmonic and the BBC Orchestra. She died, probably from typhoid fever, at the age of 25.
Vítězslava Kaprálová’s published compositions are numbered up through Opus 25 and include works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, and voice. This is her two-movement piano composition Sonata Appassionata (Opus 6) from 1934.
Her April Preludes (Opus 13) dates from 1937
This is her Partita for Piano and Strings (Opus 20):