Biography of bedrich smetana
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Bedřich Smetana
Czech composer (1824–1884)
"Smetana" redirects here. For other uses, see Smetana (disambiguation).
Bedřich Smetana (BED-ər-zhikh SMET-ə-nə;[1][2][3]Czech:[ˈbɛdr̝ɪxˈsmɛtana]ⓘ; 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".
Biography of bedrich smetana
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").
Smetana was naturally gifted as a composer, and gave his first public performance at the age of six.
After conventional schooling, he studied mu