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Composer Svoboda, 68, dies; suicide reported

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    Czech media are reporting possible suicide in the death Monday of Karel Svoboda, composer for several animated TV series. He was 68.

    Svoboda, who wrote 80 songs for Czech pop singer Karel Gott, committed suicide in the garden of his house in Jevany in central Bohemia, radio station Frekvence 1 and Web site Novinky.cz said.

    Police are investigating the case and are also considering the possibility that his death was not a suicide, Novinky.cz added.

    Born in Prague (Plzen, according to some sources) on December 19, 1938, he wrote the scores for about 900 films and TV series.

    Svoboda had worked closely with Gott since 1968. His songs for Gott included the music for the hugely popular children's animated TV series Maya the Bee(Mitsubachi Maya no boken; 1975), a Japanese-West German co-production.

    Svoboda composed TV scores for the German channel network ZDF for over 30 years, writing scores to many 1970s series that an entire generation of Europeans grew up with.

    Other animated series included Chiisana Viking Vickie (Vicky the Viking; 1974), Pinocchio Yori Piccolino no Boken(The Adventures of Pinocchio; 1976) and Taotao ehonkan sekai doubutsu-banashi (Tao Tao the Panda; 1983).

    He also scored the animated theatrical features Pohádka o Honzíkovi a Marence (The Tale of John and Marie; 1980), a Czechoslovak-Soviet co-production, and Dobrodruzstvi Robinsona Crusoe, Namornika z Yorku(The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, the Sailor from York; 1981), a Czechoslovak-West German project.

    Svoboda wrote such hits as "Lady Carneval" for Gott, the music for the film Tri orisky pro Popelku (Three Nuts for Cinderella) and the musical Noc na Karlstejnì (The Night at Karlstejn).

    He wrote dozens of successful songs, as well as much theatrical music.

    Svoboda began his career as a pop composer after leaving medical studies in his third year. During the 1960s, he was a member of the Czech rock group Mefisto. Later, he composed music for the Laterna Magica theatre in Prague.

    In the mid-1990s, he was awarded a diamond record for helping sell 10 million records with the Czech label Supraphon.

    Svoboda had three children.
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