Antonín Kraft (December 30, 1749,[1] Rokycany – 28 August 1820,[2] Vienna) was a Czech cellist and composer. He was a close friend of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Kraft was born in the Bohemian town of Rokycany of a German Bohemian ethnic family which had assimilated into Czech. He received early musical education on the cello from his father before going to university in Vienna to study law. ..