František Zdeněk Skuherský

František Zdeněk Xavier Alois Skuherský (July 31, 1830 – August 19, 1892) was a Czech composer, pedagogue, and theoretician.

He graduated from the Hradec Králové gymnasium and studied philosophy and shortly medicine at Charles University.

In the years 1854 to 1866 he was a theatre kapellmeister in Innsbruck and conductor of the town's singing choir, and later director of the University's cathedral.

After the death of his wife, who gave him three children, he came back to Prague where in 1866 he became the director of a prominent organ school until he retired in 1890.

[1] This school was attended by such famous composers as Leoš Janáček and Josef Bohuslav Foerster.