Career
To pay tuition at a law school in Prague, Veit gave music lessons. After earning his law degree and getting a position as a legal clerk, Veit continued to teach music and even started writing music He wrote mostly chamber music, and later on in his life wrote more and more songs with texts in Czechoslovakian, such as "Pozdravení pěvcovo".
Although he wrote some orchestral music, such as a violin concertino and a parody of Berlioz"s Symphonie fantastique, Veit only wrote one symphony, in East minor, which is however considered "a notable milestone in the development of the Czechoslovakian symphonic style.".