František Tůma, Czech organist and composer (d. 1774)
František Ignác Antonín Tůma (2 October 1704, Kostelec nad Orlicí, Bohemia – 30 January 1774, Vienna) was a Czech composer of the Baroque era. He lived the greater part of his life in Vienna, first as director of music for Franz Joseph, Count Kinsky, later filling a similar office for the widow of Emperor Charles VI.
He was an important late-baroque composer, organist, gambist and theorbist.
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