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BEDRICH SMETANA

Bedrich Smetana was a Czech composer. He was born in 1824 at Litomysl and died in 1884. He opened a music school, with funding from Franz Liszt in 1848, but is best known for composing the 1866 opera 'The Bartered Bride'.
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