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The three most important composers
of the Czech Republic
Antonín
Dvořák
The world's best known and
most played
Czech composer
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*september 8, 1841 Nelahozeves
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son of butcher
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Studied playing the piano and organ in Prague
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Gave private piano lessons,he met his future wife
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had nine children
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He composed and conducted hisworks
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Spent three years in America in New York
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Professor at the Conservatory in PragueMay 1, 1904 dies of a stroke
The best – known work:
The New World (9th
symphony)
Slavonic
dances
Rusalka
(opera)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kjtgeydoUM
Bedřich
Smetana
Composer
Music teacher
conductor
* born on March 2 in Litomyšl
- since childhood he devoted
himself to music
- he studied music in prague
- when he was fifty he became
completly deaf however he
went on compossing
- disease led to madness
Died on 12 May 1884 in Prague
The most significant works:
The Bartered bride
(opera)
Libuše
(opera)
My country
(cycle of symphonic poems)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz9okzlhDSk
Composer
Teacher
Folklorist
Collector of
folk songs
Etnographer
Leoš Janáček
*He was born on July 3, 1854 in Hukvaldy
married his pupil Zdenka Schulcovou.
studied in Brno and Prague
professor at Prague
Conservatory
founder of the brno Conservatory
+Died on 12 august in ostrava of pneumonia
The most famous operas:
The Cunning Little Vixen
Jenufa
Katy Kabanova
Suita for strings:
Lachian Dances
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H437w1nA-jA