The Prague Sonata characters Alphabetically Listed

THE PRAGUE SONATA
Characters - Alphabetical

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