Lucky’s part in world war II resistance and in the Slovak uprising of 1944 got him sent to concentration camps at Bucharest, Auschwitz and Buchenwald. After the War he re-enrolled at the Prague Conservatory, to study with Ridky and Alois Haba, and graduated in 1947. He became a forward-thinking composer of pragmatic modernistic manner, not identifiable with any school or technique. He also became a leading Czech film composer.
(Contribution by Koenraad Vissers.)
Web: www.classical-composers.org/comp/lucky