Bedřich Smetana

Bedřich Smetana

Known for
Sound
Born
March 2, 1824
Died
May 12, 1884 (aged 60)

Biography

Bedřich Smetana ( 2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) 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 regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his 1866 opera The Bartered Bride and for the symphonic cycle Má vlast ("My Fatherland"), which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native Bohemia. It contains the famous symphonic poem "Vltava", also popularly known by its German name "Die Moldau" (in English, "The Moldau").

Known For

Photos

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Filmography

2026
La Folle Journée de Nantes 2026 poster

La Folle Journée de Nantes 2026

Movie · Original Music Composer

2024
Prodaná nevěsta poster

Prodaná nevěsta

Movie · Original Music Composer

2024
Smetana poster

Smetana

Movie · Music

2024
Petr Altrichter and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Concert at Prague Castle poster

Petr Altrichter and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Concert at Prague Castle

Movie · Original Music Composer

2024
Petr Popelka & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra with Antoine Tamestit & Josef Špaček poster

Petr Popelka & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra with Antoine Tamestit & Josef Špaček

Movie · Original Music Composer

2022
Dalibor poster

Dalibor

Movie · Original Music Composer

2022
Královna českých řek

Královna českých řek

Movie · Original Music Composer

2021
The Kiss - National Moravian-Silesian Theatre poster

The Kiss - National Moravian-Silesian Theatre

Movie · Music

2017
Santa Cecilia: Smetana - La mia patria poster

Santa Cecilia: Smetana - La mia patria

Movie · Original Music Composer

2017
Hudební perličky Pavla Šporcla

Hudební perličky Pavla Šporcla

TV · Original Music Composer · 1 ep

2013
The Good Driver Smetana poster

The Good Driver Smetana

Movie · Original Music Composer

2008
Bedřich Smetana: Hubička

Bedřich Smetana: Hubička

Movie · Music

2006
Everything Will Be OK poster

Everything Will Be OK

Movie · Music

2006
Bedřich Smetana: Tajemství

Bedřich Smetana: Tajemství

Movie · Original Music Composer

2003
Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin

Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin

Movie · Original Music Composer

1998
Investigation of the Loss of a Class Book poster

Investigation of the Loss of a Class Book

Movie · Sound

1993
Halych is the capital of Prince Danylo Halytsky poster

Halych is the capital of Prince Danylo Halytsky

Movie · Music

1990
F-E-D-A

F-E-D-A

Movie · Music

1989
Bedřich Smetana: Medvěd

Bedřich Smetana: Medvěd

Movie · Original Music Composer

1985
Bedřich Smetana: Braniboři v Čechách

Bedřich Smetana: Braniboři v Čechách

Movie · Original Music Composer

1982
The Bartered Bride poster

The Bartered Bride

Movie · Original Music Composer

1979
Dvě vdovy

Dvě vdovy

Movie · Original Music Composer

1976
Prodaná nevěsta poster

Prodaná nevěsta

Movie · Original Music Composer

1976
Bedřich Smetana: Hubička

Bedřich Smetana: Hubička

Movie · Original Music Composer

1973
Čertova stěna

Čertova stěna

Movie · Music

1971
Z mého života

Z mého života

Movie · Original Music Composer

1968
Bedřich Smetana: Má vlast

Bedřich Smetana: Má vlast

Movie · Original Music Composer

1967
The Whipping Cream Hero poster

The Whipping Cream Hero

Movie · Music

1962
Prodaná nevěsta

Prodaná nevěsta

Movie · Music

1956
Dalibor poster

Dalibor

Movie · Music

1956
Prodaná nevěsta

Prodaná nevěsta

Movie · Music

1956
Libuše

Libuše

Movie · Music

1955
From My Life poster

From My Life

Movie · Music

1955
Prodaná nevěsta

Prodaná nevěsta

Movie · Original Music Composer

1954
Hubička

Hubička

Movie · Original Music Composer

1943
Mater dolorosa poster

Mater dolorosa

Movie · Music

1937
History of Philosophy poster

History of Philosophy

Movie · Music

1933
Prodaná nevěsta

Prodaná nevěsta

Movie · Music