
The composer Bedrich Smetana died at the age of 60. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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The father of Czech music. He was remembered for “The Battered Bride,” an opera, and “Má vlast,” a symphonic cycle.
His father was a brewer who had become modestly wealthy selling clothing and provisions to the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. He married Katerina Kolarova in 1849, with whom he had four children.