Bedřich Smetana
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Bedřich Smetana 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 re
František Smetana by Antonín Machek (1832)
Oil portrait of Smetana by Geskel Saloman (1854)
Gothenburg, Sweden, Smetana's base between 1856 and 1861
Prague Conservatoire (modern photograph): Smetana's bid to become its director failed.
Antonín Dvořák
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Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic era nationalist example of his
Bedřich Smetana
…contemporaries and successors. However, relatively few of Smetana's works are in the international repertory, and most foreign commentators tend to regard Antonín Dvořák as a more significant Czech composer. Bedřich Smetana, first named Friedrich Smetana, was born on 2 March 1824, in Litomyšl (German: Leitomischl), east…
Dvořák in 1882
Dvořák's birthplace in Nelahozeves
Antonín Dvořák birth record 1841 (SOA Prague)
Dvořák aged 26 or 27 (1868)