The Prague Sonata characters Listed With Descriptions

THE PRAGUE SONATA
Characters By Chapter

EDITOR:
Remy Hale

CH	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	DESCRIPTION
			Part I
1	Jaromir	Laska	A soldier. A former piano teacher.
	Otylie	Bartosova	Jaromir's daughter.
	Jakub	Bartos	Otylie's husband.
	Wolfgang	Mozart	Austrian composer of the Classical period.
	Franz	Neubauer	German composer and violinist of Bohemian origins.
	Anton	Kraft	Czech composer and violoncellist.
	Franz Joseph Haydn	Haydn	Austrian composer.
	Karel	Capek	Czech writer, playwright and critic.
	Emil	Hacha	The third President of Czechoslovakia.
	Adolf	Hitler	The leader of the Nazi Party.
	Franz	Bittner	Austrian trade unionist.
	Tomas	Lang	A pianist. Jakub's friend.
	Irena S.	Dorfman	Otylie's best friend.
	Ludwig van	Beethoven	German composer whose Symphony #5 is a beloved classic.
	Marek		Jakub's shopkeeper.
	Meta	Taverner	A pianist.
	Jonathan		Meta's boyfriend.
	Erik	Satie	French composer and pianist.
	John	Lennon	English singer and songwriter, founding member of The Beatles.
	Domenico	Scarlatti	Italian composer.
	Hermann	Keller	German church musician, musicologist and music educator.
	Johann	Bach	German composer and musician of the Baroque era.
	Frank	Zappa	American musician, songwriter, composer.
	Gillian		Jonathan's sister. aka: Gillie.
	Franco	Zeffirelli	Italian director and producer of films and television.
	Jimi	Hendrix	American guitarist, singer and songwriter.
	Maurice	Ravel	French composer.
	Alice	Tully	American singer of opera and recital, music promoter.
	Rembrandt		Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker.
	Pierre-Auguste	Renoir	French painter associated with the Impressionist movement.
	Adolf	Eichmann	German high official who was hanged by the State of Israel.
	Edvard	Beneš	Czechoslovak politician.
	Joseph	Satalin	The dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
	Hirohito		Emperor of Japan.
	Franz	Kafka	Bohemian novelist and short story writer.
	Reinhard	Heydrich	German SS and police official and main architect of the Holocaust.
	Antonin	Dvorak	First Bohemian composer.
	Josef	Suk	Czech composer.
	Otilie		Josef Suk's wife.
2	Paul	Mandelbaum	Professor emeritus of the Department of Music of Columbia.
	Arthur Conan	Doyle	Scottish physician and author.
	Jan Ladislav	Dussek	Czech composer and pianist.
	Joseph	Wolfl	Austrian pianist and composer.
	Anton	Reicha	Czech-born naturalized French composer.
	C. P. E.	Bach	German harpsichordist and composer.
	Daniel	Steibelt	German pianist and composer.
	Franz Viktor	Werfel	Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet.
	Rainer Maria	Rilke	Austrian poet and writer.
	Pablo	Neruda	Chilean poet, diplomat, politician.
	Kenneth	Taverner	Meta's father.
	Jan	Neruda	Czech poet, theater reviewer, publicist, journalist and writer.
	Bob	Dylan	American singer-songwriter.
	Dylan	Thomas	Welsh poet and writer.
	Jean	Sibelius	Finnish composer of the late Romantic period.
3	Richard	Wagner	German composer and conductor.
	Anton	Bruckner	Austrian composer.
	Heinz		Reinhard Heydrich's brother.
	Kaiser	Wilhelm II	German Emperor and King of Prussia.
	Heinrich	Himmler	German Nazi politician; leader of the SS.
	Jan	Hus	Czech theologian and philosopher.
	Louis	Armstrong	American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer.
	Dizzy	Gillespie	American jazz trumpeter.
	Johannes	Kepler	German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer.
	Karel	Kohout	Professor in the department of music at Charles University.
	Ignaz	Pleyel	Austrian-born French composer and piano builder.
	Joseph	Gelinek	Czech-born composer and pianist.
	Artur	Schnabel	Austrian pianist.
	Samuel	Kettle	A musician . aka: Sam.
	Ludwig Ritter	von Köchel	Austrian musicologist.
	Sylvie		Sam Kettle's wife.
	David		Sam Kettle's son.
	Lucie		Sam Kettle's daughter.
	Paul	McCartney	English singer-songwriter, bassist of The Beatles.
	William	Shakespeare	English playwright and poet.
	John	Coltrane	American jazz saxophonist.
	Petr	Wittman	Mandelbaum's friend.
	Frédéric	Chopin	Polish composer and pianist.
	Annalise		Mandelbaum's wife.
	Franz	Schubert	Austrian composer.
	Wilhelm	Kempff	German pianist and composer.
	Gretja	Toplova	A musicologist.
	Robert	Gerringer	American actor.
	Antonio	Salieri	Italian classical composer and conductor.
	Bedřich	Smetana	Czech composer.
	Federico	Mompou	Spanish composer and pianist.
	Bill	Evans	American jazz pianist.
	Gustav	Mahler	Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer.
	Kate	Taverner	Meta's mother.
	Andrea	Hodek	Sam's piano student.
	Konstantin	von Neurath	German general and Nazi war criminal.
	Alois	Eliáš	Czechoslovak general and politician.
	Jozef	Gabčík	Czechoslovak soldier.
	Jan	Kubiš	Czech soldier and martyr.
			Part II
1	Gerrit	Mills	A journalist.
	Mikhail	Gorbachev	Russian and former Soviet politician.
	Margery	Raines	Editor at the newspaper in New York.
	Anton	Pelc	Gerrit's friend.
	Lenka		Anton's wife.
	Pavel		Anton and Lenka's son.
	Věra	Pelc	Pavel's wife.
	Jiří	Pelc	A painter.
	Jan	Opletal	A medical student shot dead by Hitler's police.
	Milos	Jakeš	Czechoslovakia's buffoonish party leader.
	Tomas	Masaryk	First Czechoslovak president.
	Alexander	Dubček	Head of the Czechoslovak Communist Party.
	Gregor	Samsa	Band from Virginia.
	Madonna		American singer and songwriter.
	Johannes	Vermeer	17th-century Dutch artist.
	Karl	Marx	German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist.
	Václav	Havel	Playwright, essayist, poet,1st President of the Czech Republic.
	Adrienne		Gerrit's girlfriend.
	Antonin	Novák	Jakub and Otylie's acquaintance.
	Thelonious	Monk	American jazz pianist and composer.
	Molly		Meta's piano.
	Sergei	Rachmaninoff	Russian composer, pianist, and conductor.
2	Enrico	Fermi	Italian physicist.
	William Butler	Yeats	Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer.
	Max	Baer Jr.	Film and television actor, producer and director.
	Lou	Nova	American boxer and actor.
	Francisco	Franco	Ruled over Spain from a1939 until his death.
	Albert	Einstein	German-born theoretical physicist.
	Franklin D.	Roosevelt	32nd President of the United States.
	Glenn	Miller	American big-band trombonist, arranger, composer, bandleader.
	Tommy	Dorsey	American big band leader and musician.
	Jane	Decker	Otlie's friend.
	Cary	Grant	British-American actor.
	Joan	Fontaine	British American actress.
	Karl Hermann	Frank	Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament.
	Karel	Čurda	Czech Nazi collaborator during World War II.
3	Socrates		A cat.
	Pieter	Bruegel	Flemish painter.
	Johana	Langova	Tomas' sister.
	Samuel	Beckett	Novelist, playwright, poet, theatre director, essayist.
	Antonio	Rossini	Italian composer.
	Hector	Berlioz	French Romantic composer.
4	Karl	Frank	Heydrich's successor.
	Dwight D.	Eisenhower	U. S. Army general, and 34th president of the United States.
	George S.	Patton	A general who commanded the 7th U.S. Army in the Mediterranean.
	Douglas		Otylie's acquaintance.
	Adele	Sanders	Otylie's new employer.
	Grace	Danders	Adele's daughter.
	Billy		Adele's son.
	Maria	Callas	American-born Greek operatic soprano.
	Alec	Baldwin	American actor, writer, comedian, film aproducer.
	Anton	Rubinstein	Russian pianist, composer and conductor.
	Mr.	Sanders	Adele's husband.
	Frank	Sinatra	American singer and actor.
5	Marta		Tomas Lang's daughter.
	John	Cage	American avant-garde composer.
	Dmitri	Shostakovich	Russian Soviet composer and pianist.
	Maurice	Ravel	French composer.
	Bela	Bartók	Hungarian composer and pianist.
	Scott	Joplin	American composer, musician, and pianist.
	Bo	Diddley	American R&B musician.
	Aretha	Franklin	American singer-songwriter.
	Ramones		American punk rock band.
	Marvin	Gaye	American singer-songwriter and musician.
	Tom		A new piano student.
	Alexandr	Vondra	Served as Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic.
	Jiri	Křižan	Czech scriptwriter, writer and university educator.
	Michael	Žantovský	Czech diplomat, translator and writer.
6	El	Greco	Spanish painter, sculptor and architect.
	Jean-Jacques	Rousseau	Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer.
	Oskar	Kokoschka	Austrian dramatic, painter and writer.
	Robert	Sternberg	American psychologist & scholar.
	Frans Pieter	de Grebber	Painter from the Northern Netherlands.
	Helena		Gerrit's mother.
	Alex		Gerrit's father.
	Emil		Gerrit's brother.
	Giovanni F.	Caroto	Italian painter.
	Joe	Jackson	A musician.
	Herbert	von Karajan	Austrian conductor.
	Leonard	Bernstein	American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author.
	Gustav	Klimt	Austrian symbolist painter.
	Renata		Petr Wittmann's ex-wife.
	Alphonse	Mucha	Czechoslovak photographer, painter and illustrator.
	Philip	Glass	American composer and pianist.
	Aaron	Copland	American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor.
	Elliott	Carter	American composer.
	Milton	Babbitt	American composer.
	Igor	Stravinsky	Russian-born composer.
	John	Tavener	British composer.
	Muddy	Waters	American blues singer and guitarist.
	Mr.	Hodek	Andrea's father.
7	Jim		Jane Decker Burke's husband.
			Part III
1	Heinrich	Schenker	A music theorist, music critic, teacher, pianist, and composer.
	Arnold	Schoenberg	Austrian-American composer.
	Kurt	Lewin	German-American psychologist.
	Carlo	Gesualdo	Italian composer.
	Gaetano	Donizetti	Italian opera composer.
	Robert	Schumann	German composer.
	Arnold	Dolmetsch	French musician and instrument maker in England.
	William	Newman	American film, television and theater actor.
	Charles	Rosen	A production designer and art director.
	Volkmar	Braunbehrens	German musicologist and publisher.
	Karl	Geiringer	Austrian-American musicologist, and biographer of composers.
	Franz	Wegeler	German physician and friend of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
	Oskar	Schindler	German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party.
	Maximilian	Friedrich	Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and the Bishop of Münster.
	Ludwig	Schiedermair	German minister and amusicologist.
	Douglas	Johnson	British historian.
	Ferdinand	Wolanek	A copyist.
2	Jana		Jaromir Laska's wife.
	Franz	Liszt	Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger.
	Johannes	Brahms	German composer and pianist.
	Sergei	Rachmaninoff	Russian composer, pianist, and conductor.
	Karl van	Beethoven	Nephew of Ludwig van Beethoven.
	Jim	Burke	Australian cricketer.
	Stephen	Foster	American songwriter.
	Antonio	Vivaldi	Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and priest.
	Humphrey	Bogart	American film and stage actor.
	Paul	Henreid	Austrian-American actor and film director.
	Ingrid	Bergman	Swedish actress.
	Bozena	Němcová	Czech writer.
	Daniel	Hajek	Otylie's close friend. aka: Danek.
	Gary	Cooper	American actor.
	Mathias	Novak	A Bohemian immigrant.
	Godfrey	Flury	A decorative painter and commercial artist.
	Richard	Nixon	37th President of the United States of America.
	John F.	Kennedy	35th president of the United States.
	Willa	Cather	American writer.
3	Jean-Pierre	Rampal	French flutist.
	Johann W.	von Goethe	German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician.
	Jean-Yves	Thibaudet	French-American pianist.
	Mischa	Maisky	Latvian-Israeli cellist.
	Martha	Argerich	Argentine/Swiss pianist.
4	Nat King	Cole	American singer and jazz pianist.
	Josef	Kliment	Danek's new acquaintance. aka: Joe.
5	Hana		President Benes' wife.
	Alfred	Bartoš	A lieutenant.
	Henry		Meta's new acquaintance.
	Tilly		A woman who worked for the Czech government during the war.
	Max		Henry's neighbor.
	Maxine	Kendrick	Meta's new acquaintance.
	Homer		The presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
6	Pursel	Moore	A minister.
	Woody	Guthrie	American singer-songwriter and folk musician.
7	Jim	Thorpe	American track and field athlete and baseball player.
	Charlws	Castell	Wittmann's friend.
	Colin	Davis	British conductor.
	Margaret	Price	Welsh opera singer.
	Tamino		Belgian-Egyptian singer.
	Peter	Schreier	German tenor and conductor.
	Maria Anna	von Westerholt	Friend and pupil of Ludwig van Beethoven.
	Leonard	Bernstein	American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author.
	Avery	Fisher	Founder of the Philharmonic Radio.
	Herodotus		5th century BC Greek historian and author of The Histories.
	Ferdinand	Ries	German composer. Close friend of Beethoven.

The Prague Sonata suggested by James Gay