Václav Trojan was a Czech composer. From 1923 to 1927 he studied organ, composition and conducting at the Prague Conservatory. Until 1929 he attended the master class in composition with Josef Suk. In the 1930s he worked as a pianist in cinemas and bars and as a composer and arranger for dance and jazz music. In the years 1937 to 1945 Vaclav Trojan worked as a music director at the Prague Radio. After that, he began to intensively write music for film productions, especially for puppet animation films. From 1948 to 1961 he was a lecturer for theater and film music at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Trojan's musical aesthetic moves within a spectrum between late romantic tradition and neoclassicism. Occasionally he also picks up elements from Czech folk music.
