Bedřich Smetana
Also known as Bedrich Smetana
Czech composer (1824–1884)
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Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who lived from 1824 to 1884 and is considered a central figure in Czech classical music. He is important because his works helped establish a distinctly Czech musical identity during a time when the Czech lands were under foreign rule.
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Bedřich Smetana (2 March 1824 - 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer, one of his nation's most significant. He is best known for his symphonic poem Vltava - Die Moldau , the second in a cycle of six which he entitled Má vlast ("My Homeland"), and for his opera Prodaná nevěsta ("The Bartered Bride"). Smetana was the son of a brewer in Litomyšl in Bohemia. He studied piano and violin from an early age, and played in an amateur string quartet with other members of his family. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bed%C5%99ich+Smetana">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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Bedřich Smetana (2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival". He has been regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his 1866 opera The Bartered Bride and for the symphonic cycle Má vlast ("My Fatherland"), which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native Bohemia. It contains the famous symphonic poem "Vltava", also popularly known by its German name "Die Moldau" (in English, "The Moldau").