Josef Leopold Zvonař

Josef Leopold Zvonař (22 January 1824 – 23 November 1865) was a Czech composer, pedagogue, and music critic.

Some of his early music is set to German texts, but after 1848 he aligned himself with Czech nationalism.

He was a co-founder of the Hlahol choral society and the Umělecká Beseda, an artists' union.

Zvonař composed overtures, chamber music, cantatas, an opera entitled Záboj, a requiem, and piano works, and his manuscripts are held at the National Museum in Prague.

His papers on Czech folk music were among the earliest founding documents of study in the field.