Josef Páleníček

Josef Páleníček (July 19, 1914, Travnik, Bosnia, Austria-Hungary—March 7, 1991, Prague) was a Czech piano virtuoso and composer.

Páleníček was also a pupil of Vítězslav Novák and Otakar Šín.

Following the World War II he also became a member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party.

[3] Páleníček was appointed a professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1963.

[1] In 1984 he served on the jury of the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition.