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Jan Valta
12+ albums
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Jan Valta (September 23, 1977) is a Czech composer, conductor and violinist, best known for his work on the video game series Kingdom Come: Deliverance. He also worked as an orchestrator for Atli Örvarsson for the Czech film Colette. Valta was born in 1977 in Prague. According to an interview on KCD's website, Valta was born into a family of classical music. His father, also named Jan, was a composer while his mother was a pianist, and Valta himself began playing the violin at age five. Valta said he "grew up" with classical composers like Antonín Dvořák, Mozart and Maurice Ravel, which influenced his later works. He graduated from the Teplice Conservatoire where he studied both violin and conducting as well as the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague where he studied the violin. During his studies he was a prizewinner at a nation-wide competition of chamber music; he is also a prizewinner of the Czech Conservatories Competition. He and Sporka are cousins. Work on Kingdom Come: Deliverance Valta began working on the soundtrack for KCD with Adam Sporka in the summer of 2014 for the alpha teaser trailer. A major theme of KCD, which takes place in 1400s Bohemia, was an attempt to be historically accurate "as much as possible." According to Dr. James Cook, there is not much extant early music from the place and time period, where Mensural notation was only just beginning to come into use. This makes it difficult to simply reuse existing medieval scores from that time period, wi
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Original Soundtrack Essentials)
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (Original Soundtrack Essentials)
Music of Towns (Kingdom Come: Deliverance Original Soundtrack)
Cutscene Music I. (Kingdom Come: Deliverance Original Soundtrack)
Medieval and Action Music (Kingdom Come: Deliverance Original Soundtrack)
Music of Pubs & Baths (Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Extended Soundtrack)
Cutscene Music II. (Kingdom Come: Deliverance Original Soundtrack)
Music of Trosky (Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Extended Soundtrack)
Music of Kuttenberg I (Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Extended Soundtrack)
Cutscenes I (Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Extended Soundtrack)
Music of Kuttenberg II (Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Extended Soundtrack)
Music of Nature I (Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Extended Soundtrack)