The Great master of chromatic mouth organ Lubomír Pleva was born in 31/7/ 1929 in vilage Grygov near by city Olomouc in Czech republic and died 1/8/1998 in Czech republic.He had first met a music when he had 5 years age.He used to visit a music school where he played on the fiddle.A basic music knowledge got from music professor Mr Černý.On the secondary school had to make a living decision do athletic sport or put brain to music anyway he had several hobbys as the javelin throw sportman, photographer or a plastic airplane models maker.In the year 1953 he had took degree on the Faculty of arts Palacky's university in Olomouc city and worked as a secondary school professor in town Přerov.As he was university student he became a leader of cimbalom orchestra which play a tradition music of Moravian region in Czech republic.But it hadn't been enough for him as he started to play in a jazzband the contrabass. There were lot of chromatic mouth organ exercise books he was co-author as well.On the chromatic mouth organ he was an autodidact from the age 16 and he made up this wind-instrument to full and absolute perfection.

In the year 1955 first time he played on an amateur chromatic mouth organ competition where he won and from the time he was winning every next mouth organ Championship in the Czechoslovakia.

Mr Lubomír Pleva the world's Grand master of chromatic mouth organ 4 times has won the World Championat of play on this mystical instrument.He has recorded plenty of beautiful instrumental music the best quality for the radio,TV, film and theatres.As he was a soloist he played and recorded with all the most best Czech republic bands.He performed many times in Kanada(just in the year 1974 he had 182 shows) ,USA all Europe where everywhere he was very,very successful.He covered all music genres as from classic music, popular music, via film music till a jazz's improvisations. Just several months before he died(1/8/1998 after a serious ill) he had a last public show where he showed that nothing by his unique performance had been lost.It has been unfair to Mr Pleva that the Czech republic owner of copyright doesn't issuing enough of these records.

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