Definition of Smetana

1. Noun. Czech composer (1824-1884).

Exact synonyms: Bedrich Smetana
Generic synonyms: Composer

Definition of Smetana

1. Noun. A European form of soured cream or crème fraîche. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Smetana

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Literary usage of Smetana

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Famous Composers and Their Works by Philip Hale, Louis Charles Elson (1900)
"His father, Franz Smetana, was a brewer, who was successful in business in ... Smetana was educated in German schools at Neuhaus, where his father lived ..."

2. Symphonies and Their Meaning: Third Series: Modern Symphonies by Philip Henry Goepp (1913)
"The intensity of this national feeling appears when Smetana himself, the minstrel of ... Two types we have in Bohemian music of later times: one, Smetana, ..."

3. Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of by Allen Augustus Brown (1915)
"STRANSKY, J. Friedrich Smetana, Mein Vaterland. Erläutert. Frankfurt a. M. [1898.] No. 14-16 in N.217.12.4 Smetana, Friedrich. See Smetana, Bedrich. ..."

4. The Standard Operaglass: Detailed Plots of the Celebrated Operas, with by Charles Annesley (1904)
"Smetana Libretto by K. SABINA German text by MAX KALBECK Poor Smetana! Nature had put on his brow the stamp of genius, but he never lived to see his glory. ..."

5. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"... Smetana, Sibelius, Debussy, Elgar, German, were given. Among the composers who have conducted their own works are Sir CV Stanford, Mr. E. German, ..."

6. The Opera: A Sketch of the Development of Opera : with Full Descriptions of by Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1897)
"... XIII MODERN GERMAN AND SLAVONIAN OPERA CORNELIUS—GOETZ—GOLDMARK—HUMPERDINCK—Smetana —GLINKA THE history of music furnishes more than one instance of the ..."

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