# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vaclav-luks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:55:33.535Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vaclav-luks"
name: "Václav Luks"
slug: "vaclav-luks"
description: "Václav Luks is a Czech harpsichordist, horn player, conductor, musicologist and pedagogue, founder and artistic director of the Prague baroque orchestra Collegium 1704 and of the vocal ensemble Collegium Vocale 1704. He specialises in Baroque music, especially in the works of Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and others. His activities have played an important role in reviving interest in the works of Czech composers including Zelenka and Josef Mysliveček. In 2022, Luks was awarded the title of Knight of the French Ministry of Culture, Arts and Letters."
tagline: "Czech cemballist and music educator"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1970-11-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.75
  momentum:             4.050632911392405
  historical:           9.878654666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11780206/"
    handle:    "nm11780206"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6zHczx1jswsFoRPptcS2el"
    handle:    "6zHczx1jswsFoRPptcS2el"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Luks"
    title: "Václav Luks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Luks"
    title: "Václav Luks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Luks"
    title: "Václav Luks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Luks"
    title: "Václav Luks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Luks"
    title: "Václav Luks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Luks"
    title: "Václav Luks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Luks"
    title: "Václav Luks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Luks"
    title: "Václav Luks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Luks"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/05eebf3b-9248-4f7e-85a9-94cac49fc5dd"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2535808"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2379520"
    title: "Václav Luks"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump