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Czech musician and film composer Petr Skoumal was born on 7 March 1938. He produced several stage performances with Jan Vodňanský at the Prague Drama Club, a series of albums echoing communist times, and a series of albums for children based on stories by Emanuel Frynta, Pavel Šrut and Jan Vodňanský. He also wrote the music for the animated shorts Pat & Mat and Maxipes Fík. He died on 28 September 2014, aged seventy-seven.