What is Petr Eben?
{{no sources|date=January 2018}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Petr Eben | image = | caption = Composer Petr Eben | image_size = 250px | birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|1|22|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Žamberk]], [[Czechoslovakia]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|10|24|1929|1|22|df=y}} |death_place =[[Prague]], [[Czech Republic]] | origin = Czech | instrument = organist, pianist, cellist, choir master | genre = [[Classical music|classical]], [[modern classical]], [[contemporary classical music|contemporary classical]] | occupation = Composer | background = non_performing_personnel | years_active = 1950–2007 }} '''Petr Eben''' (Žamberk, [[22 January]] [[1929]]; died [[Prague]] [[24 October]] [[2007]]) was a [[Czechs|Czech]] [[composer]] and [[pipe organ|organist]]. Many musicians think of him as the most important Czech composer of the late [[20th century]]. He was known world wide for his [[pipe organ|organ]] playing. He was especially good at [[improvisation]]. == His Life == Eben grew up in Český Krumlov in south [[Bohemia]]. He learned to play the [[piano]], and later the [[cello]] and organ. Because his father was a [[Jew]] he had to leave school in [[1943]] and spent the rest of the [[World War II|war]] years in [[concentration camp]] in [[Buchenwald]]. In the camp he saw many terrible things, including [[grave]]s into which the [[Nazi]]s were throwing lots of [[murder]]ed Jews. These terrible things influenced his music in later years. He had a strong [[faith]] and this helped him to survive during 40 years of living in [[Czechoslovakia]] under [[communist]] rule. After the war he went to Prague Academy for Music where he studied the piano with František Rauch and composition with Pavel Bořkovec. In [[1955]] he got a job as [[lecture]]r at [[Charles University]] in Prague. He stayed there until [[1990]]. He was the country’s best composer, and he should have