The pianist Martin Ballý, teacher of two generations of Czech pianists, died today at the age of 70. He devoted much of his energy to the advancement of post-War Czech music, from Martinu to Kabelac.
He suffered a hand injury in the early 1990s and applied himself thereafter to teaching.
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