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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 1,391,541 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Bedřich Smetana is the 25th most popular composer (up from 27th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 7th 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 25 out of 1,216. Before him are Edvard Grieg, Felix Mendelssohn, Claudio Monteverdi, Georges Bizet, Claude Debussy, and Hector Berlioz. After him are Ennio Morricone, Antonio Salieri, Dmitri Shostakovich, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Jacques Offenbach, and Johann Strauss II.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Bedřich Smetana ranks 8 out of 973. Before him are Gregor Mendel (1822), Jan Hus (1369), Gustav Mahler (1860), Antonín Dvořák (1841), John Amos Comenius (1592), and Oskar Schindler (1908). After him are Edmund Husserl (1859), Milan Kundera (1929), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Václav Havel (1936), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), and Ferdinand Porsche (1875).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

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

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