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But what is today’s Google Doodle and who is Bohemian composer Bedřich Smetana? GOOGLE are known for temporary altering their logo to commemorate holidays, anniversaries and other significant events .

Smetana has been dubbed as the father of Czech music. Smetana has been dubbed as the father of Czech music. ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge ...

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It was 195 years ago today that Bedřich Smetana was born, in a part of the world that would become, for most of the 20th century, Czechoslovakia. Smetana blazed a trail, a partisan of the polka, a ...

He’s known as the founder of the Czech nationalist school of composition, but Bedřich Smetana’s first language was actually German. And, some of his formative musical experiences occurred in another ...

The Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood The Czech composer, conductor, pedagogue and public figure, ...

‘With God’s help and grace, I will be a Mozart in composition and a Liszt in technique,’ Smetana wrote ambitiously in his diary in 1843. Czechoslovakia as such did not exist in Smetana’s day. The ...

(3) Polkas poétiques, Movements: E flat Bedřich Smetana, Composer Jitka Cechová, Piano Notturno Bedřich Smetana, Composer Jitka Cechová, Piano 3 Rondos Bedřich Smetana, Composer Jitka Cechová, Piano ...

The great Czech composer Bedřich Smetana would have been 195 today, and the birthday has been marked by a beautiful Google Doodle, set to the music of his Vltava. The piece is one of the six symphonic ...

Today’s Google Doodle makes for some pretty satisfying Saturday morning listening, and features the music of Bedřich Smetana. The Czech composer is being honoured in the Doodle as today would have ...