COMPOSER

Bedřich Smetana

1824 - 1884

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Bedřich Smetana ( BED-ər-zhikh SMET-ə-nə; Czech: [ˈbɛdr̝ɪx ˈsmɛtana] ; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bedřich Smetana has received more than 1,477,136 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Bedřich Smetana is the 26th most popular composer (down from 25th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 8th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Composer.

Bédřich Smetana is most famous for his symphonic poem, "Má Vlast" (My Country).

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Bedřich Smetana ranks 26 out of 1,451. Before him are Georges Bizet, Claudio Monteverdi, Igor Stravinsky, Ennio Morricone, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Claude Debussy. After him are Dmitri Shostakovich, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Jacques Offenbach, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Maurice Ravel, and Hector Berlioz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Bedřich Smetana ranks 1. After him are Anton Bruckner, Alexandre Dumas fils, Gustav Kirchhoff, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Eugène Boudin, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Maria Alexandrovna, Paul Broca, Pierre Janssen, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, and Wilkie Collins. Among people deceased in 1884, Bedřich Smetana ranks 2. Before him is Gregor Mendel. After him are Maria Anna of Savoy, Elias Lönnrot, Marie Taglioni, Marie Bashkirtseff, Johann Gustav Droysen, Paul Morphy, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Hermann Kolbe, and Fanny Elssler.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Bedřich Smetana ranks 12 out of 1,200. Before him are Jan Hus (1369), John Amos Comenius (1592), Milan Kundera (1929), Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), and Oskar Schindler (1908). After him are Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Edmund Husserl (1859), Jan Žižka (1360), Alphonse Mucha (1860), Ferdinand Porsche (1875), and John of Nepomuk (1350).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Bedřich Smetana ranks 3. Before him are Antonín Dvořák (1841), and Gustav Mahler (1860). After him are Leoš Janáček (1854), Bohuslav Martinů (1890), Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679), Johann Stamitz (1717), Josef Suk (1874), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897), Anton Reicha (1770), Eduard Hanslick (1825), and Josef Mysliveček (1737).

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