Career
Skoumal focused on film music He also composed music for animated shorts (ie Pat & Mat, Maxipes Fík). In the past he made several stage performances with January Vodňanský in The Drama Club in Prague.
After the break-up of the duo he made several albums for adults, echoing the communist times (ie Half-life, March).
In the 90s he started a series of albums for children, based on the stories of Emanuel Frynta, Pavel Šrut and January Vodňanský (ie If the Pig Had Wings, Pastries, How to hunt a Gorilla). The former was made into a stage performance for Divadlo v Dlouhé.
He was the son of the notable Czechoslovakian translator Aloys Skoumal. He died in 2014 at age of 76.
His funeral was held at the Strašnice Crematorium in Prague.