Čart, Cart, Czart, Czarth, Czard, Schardt, Tzarth, Zarth, Jiři, Georg. *8 April 1708, Vysoká (Havlíčkův Brod district), †after 1778, Mannheim (?), Czech violinist and composer. He studied music in Prague and Vienna with members of the imperial court orchestra. He initially worked in Prague. In 1728, he arrived in Poland with F. Benda and other musicians, where he first played in the ensemble of the Sochaczew starost F. Szaniawski (?), and in 1732 became a member of the royal orchestra of Augustus II in Warsaw. In 1733, he moved to Dresden to the royal court of Augustus III; from 1734, he resided at the court of the Prussian heir to the throne in Rheinsberg, and after the coronation of Frederick the Great (1740), he served at the royal court in Berlin. In 1757 or 1758, he became a violinist in the Mannheim orchestra and may have moved with the court to Munich in 1778. Čart’s works represent the early Classical style.
Literature: H. Riemann, preface to Mannheimer Kammermusik des 18. Jahrhunderts, «Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Bayern» XVI, Leipzig 1915; A. Żórawska-Witkowska, Muzyka na dworze Augusta II w Warszawie, Warsaw 1997.
6 sonatas for flute and basso continuo, 6 sonatas for violin and basso continuo, pub. Paris n.d. (one pub. in L’art du violon by J.B. Cartier, Paris 1801)
violin and flute concertos (lost), symphonies and chamber works, mostly trios, MS. In libraries in Berlin, Darmstadt, Leipzig and Copenhagen
