Václav Kaprál born 26 March 1889 in Určice, Prostějov, Olomoucký, Moravia Czech Republic and died 6 April Brno/Brünn/Bruna/Berén/ ברין‎‎ Brin, Brno-město, Jihomoravský, Moravia, Czech Republic was a composer, pianist, pedagogue, choir master, and publicist.
He was the father of composer and conductor Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915-1940).

He studied composition with Leo Eugen Janáček "Leoš Janáček" (1854-1928) at his Brno organ school and later also with Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949) in Prague.

Between 1911 and 1934 he worked as the director of his own Music School in Královo Pole/Königsfeld/Kénig či Kénik/Krpole.
From 1927-1947 as an external music teacher at the Faculty of Arts in Brno, and in 1936 to 1947 as a professor at the Konzervatoř Brno.
The exception was the years in the Protektorát Čechy a Morava/Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the Nazi occupation, when he was imprisoned by the Nazis in Svatobořice near Kyjov from 1942 to 1945.
After 1935 he was a member of the Československá akademie věd a umění.

WORKS
Orchestral music

Svatební pochod for orchestra (1923)
Dve idylky for orchestra (1931)
Smuteční fanfáry for brass orchestra (1945)

Chamber music

String Quartet in C Minor (1925)
String Quartet No. 2 with Baritone Solo, on text by R. Bojko (1927)
Píseň podzimu. Voice and string quartet (1929)
Balada. Violoncello and piano (1946)

Solo piano

Lyrica (1907-1915)
Sonata I in C Major (1912)
Nocturne (1915)
Berceuses de Printemps (1916-1917)
Suita Romantica (1918)
Sonata II (1921)
Miniatures (1922)
Sonata III (1924)
Con duolo, piano cycle for left hand (1926)
Radostné chvíle (1927)
Sonatina(1930)
Fantazie (1934)
Dumka(1936)
Sonatina Bucolica (1936)
Menculske strane volaji (1938)
Sedlcký dance (1938)
Sonata IV (1939)
Dve vzpomínky (1940)
Předtucha (1940)
Sonatina II "Hradištská idyla" (1943–44)

Vocal music

Nocturneta. Four songs for middle voice and piano (1911)
Sadila fialenku v poli. Men's Choir (1911)
Dva prosté motivy. Two songs for voice and piano (1910-1913)
Dedikace. Voice and piano (1917)
Modlitba. Men's Choir (1917)
Ticho. Voice and piano (1918-1919)
Sen zimního večera. Voice and piano (1918-1919)
Ukolébavka. Women's choir (1920)
Pro ni. Four songs for voice, piano and three violins (1927)
Písen jarní. Men's choir (1931)
Zdravice. Mixed choir (1932)
Pouť sv. Antonína. Men's choir (1932)
Uspávanky. Middle voice and chamber orchestra (1932-1933)
Touha. Low voice and piano (1936)
Ledové květy. Men's choir (1942)
Haná zpívá. Mixed choir (1942)
Kvítí milodějné. Four songs for two women's voices and piano (1942)
Česká mše Svatobořická. Mixed choir and organ (1943)
Svatobořické lidové písně. Arrangements of folk songs. Men's and women's choirs (1943)
Bez rozloučení. Women's choir (1944)
Javorina. Men's choir (1944)
Beroun. Voice and piano (1944)
Koryčany. Men's choir (1945)