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  • noun Czech composer (1824-1884)

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Examples

  • Also, in recent news, the success of their live performance at the Czech Grammys with the Tata Bojs, a award-winning Czech rock band, led to the Ahns 'recording a collaborative album "Smetana" with the Tata Bojs.

    News/local from www.dailyamerican.com 2009

  • The Russians, led by Glinka, Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky, concentrated on history or the fairy tale; the Czechs, led by Smetana, Dvorˇ ák and Janá cˇ ek, on comedy, fairy tale and later realism.

    Opera through the ages 2011

  • What is extra-significant is that the room I use as my office turned out to be a room in which Smetana wrote one of his operas.

    EXCLUSIVE: Crispin Glover's Creepy Prague Castle Chris C. Anderson 2011

  • The melody of Vltava composed by Smetana followed the Obamas in Prague (Praha).

    Vltava & G20 Ducks 2009

  • I was having the walls scraped in the room Smetana wrote in and it became apparent that there were remaining fresco patterns from the Baroque era.

    EXCLUSIVE: Crispin Glover's Creepy Prague Castle Chris C. Anderson 2011

  • Bedrich Smetana Prague, Czech Repulbic, 1866Smetana took several attempts to get his gentle, catchily tuneful comedy right.

    Top 50 operas 2011

  • In the case of "Tree," almost every scene is scored with a piece from Brahms, Mahler, Berlioz, or my favorite selection which Malick used in his "New World" Smetana's haunting "Moldau."

    Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Spiritual Reflections On 'The Tree Of Life' S.J. Rev. James Martin 2011

  • What is extra-significant is that the room I use as my office turned out to be a room in which Smetana wrote one of his operas.

    EXCLUSIVE: Crispin Glover's Creepy Prague Castle Chris C. Anderson 2011

  • In the case of "Tree," almost every scene is scored with a piece from Brahms, Mahler, Berlioz, or my favorite selection which Malick used in his "New World" Smetana's haunting "Moldau."

    Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Spiritual Reflections On 'The Tree Of Life' S.J. Rev. James Martin 2011

  • I was having the walls scraped in the room Smetana wrote in and it became apparent that there were remaining fresco patterns from the Baroque era.

    EXCLUSIVE: Crispin Glover's Creepy Prague Castle Chris C. Anderson 2011

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