Smetana

[ sme-tah-nah; English smet-n-uh ]

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��·��ř�� [be, -d, r, zhi, kh] 1824–84, Czech composer.

Smetana

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Smetana��ř��18241884MCzechMUSIC: composer ��ř�� (ˈbɛdrʒix). 1824–84, Czech composer, founder of his country's national school of music. His works include My Fatherland (1874–79), a cycle of six symphonic poems, and the opera The Bartered Bride (1866)

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By summer, he had regained enough energy to join the Divan Orchestra on another European tour, performing works by Ravel, de Falla and Smetana.

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This skill was on full display in the Smetana.

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That Smetana was losing his hearing as he composed the piece seems like more than arcane biographical trivia; as the piece unfolds, one suspects it accounts for the music’s indulgence in meticulous depiction.

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Mikhailo Smetana, a graphic designer, packed his and his wife's things after the Russian invasion on Feb. 24 but never felt it was the right time to leave.

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At City Hospital No. 3, Anna Smetana sat up in a cot, sobbing.

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