Jan Matyáš Nepomuk August Vitásek (or Johann Matthias Wittasek/Wittaschek) (March 23, 1770, Hořín, Bohemia – December 7, 1839) was a Bohemian composer. Vitásek was born at Hořín. He studied under his father and then under František Xaver Dušek and Leopold Kozeluch, the latter of whom he would succeed in the position of music director in 1814 at the Cathedral of St. Vitus in Prague. Vitásek remained in Prague for the rest of his life and became one of the city's leading musical figures
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Jan August Vitasek
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