ComposerTube

Bedřich Smetana was born on March 2, 1824- May 12, 1884. He was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style, which became very known today.   

 

Smetana was naturally gifted as a pianist, and gave his first public performance at the age of six. After his conventional schooling, he studied music under Josef Proksch in Prague. The basic materials from which Smetana fashioned his art, according to Newmarch, were nationalism, realism and romanticism. A particular feature of all his later music is its descriptive character – all his major compositions outside his operas are written to programmes, and many are specifically autobiographical   

 

Biographers say he was not good looking yet many women back then had great interest in him, and even despite looks he never let an obstacle get in the way of producing music and that is what was his dream.