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 …

Bedřich Smetana was a Bohemian composer of operas and symphonic poems, founder of the Czech national school of music. He was the first truly important Bohemian nationalist composer.

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 …

Smetana is the English-language name for the different types of sour cream traditionally prevalent in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, and Central Asia. It is a dairy product produced …

Jun 5, 2024 · Bedřich Smetana is regarded as the founder of Czech national music. His mother tongue was German, and he had to work hard to learn Czech. Behind this was a process of …

Unfortunately, it was not until after Smetana died that his music was recognized as a national treasure. His music was both cultured and representative of pride and independence.

Bedřich Smetana (March 2, 1824 - 12 May 12, 1884) is considered one of the greatest Czech composers of the nineteenth century and the country's first nationalist composer, having …

Beyond Czech-speaking countries Smetana is best known for his cycle of six orchestral tone poems, Má vlast (‘My Country’), especially ‘Vltava’, his depiction of the river that flows through …

Má vlast (Czech pronunciation: [maː vlast]), also known as My Fatherland, [n 1] is a set of six symphonic poems composed between 1874 and 1879 by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana.

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 …