Arne L I N K A was born into a family of music teachers in the village of Zborovice near East-Moravian town of Kromeriz. He was a composer, pedagogue, pianist, musicologist, critic, publicist and promoter of musicotherapy. Since his childhood he showed absolute ear for music, extraordinary music memory, the piano improvisation ability, play at sight and direct player's transposition, even of difficult pieces into various keys. He won awards in some musical competitions. He finished his Grammar school in Kroměříž with high marks 1955, Brno Conservatoire 1959, piano with prof. Vilém Vaňura, Janáček Academy of Music in Brno - JAMU 1963, composition with Jan Kapr - he graduated with Sinfonietta for Large Orchestra, diploma thesis called Alban Berg's Lyric Suite, and he achieved his research post at JAMU 1973 with prof. Theodor Schaefer and Senior Lecturer Ctirad Kohoutek. He published a three-volume Systematization and Methodology of Dodecaphonic Composition, he passed his examination for the doctorate of philosophy at Palacký University Olomouc (1972).
He taught at JAMU /where he was habilitated in 1992 by his treatise Perspectives of a Serial Conception in Contemporary Artificial Music/, before that he had been teaching at Brno and Prague Conservatoires /until 1990, in 1989 he achieved CSc. in science with The Musical Grammar of a Serial Dodecaphonic Composition at the Institute of Theory and History of Arts Academy of Science in Prague/, in the 1970s he was also an external teacher at the Pedagogical Faculty of the Brno University. He taught a number of Czech jazzmen and even some later top pop-music representatives were his students.
He is an author of 10 voluminous books about the theory of music incIuding the first Czech dodecaphony textbook. He wrote several theoretical treatises and studies - a monograph The Composer Theodor Schaefer (1978), Inconsistency in Terminology and other Problems of Applied Theory of Music (1980), The Problem of Notation More Complicated Rhythmic Structures in Music (1984), Chapters on Dodecaphony (1991) a.o., as a composer he wrote about 50 compositional opuses /especially compositions for the piano /Sonatina no. 1 and 2, Hunting Little Chateau, Forgotten Nocturnes op. 13, Invisible Pictures from Childhood op.16, The Last Spring op. 40, The Spring for Janáček's Grave/, orchestral Memento op. 7, Pictures or Secession Symphony, concertante pieces, chamber music /Old Chateau Music op. 5, Psalmus for the Barok Jazz Quintet op. 22, Suita in Fa per violino, contrabasso e pianoforte op. 23/, incidental music and vocal-instrumental music, mainly Haná Songs for soloists, mixed choir, piano and trumpet op. 6, The Second Book of Haná Songs for solo soprano, trio women's voices, mixed choir and piano op. 21, Three Songs for baritone and piano inspired by Ladislav Nezdařil's verses and about 600 published texts, 132 radio musical programmes, cca 60 lectures at music theatres, 53 concert introductions, papers for colloquies and musicological congresses, texts for concert programmes, entries in encyclopedias, interviews for various journals and periodicals. He can be found in the English "Who's Who in Music ... " and in some others musical encyclopedías. Arne Linka represents a prolific personality both in Czech and European cultural context