Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884), Czech composer, pianist and conductor, the founder of Czech classical music. The pioneer of Czech national opera and the founder of the Czech national music school. Unfortunately, he became deaf in 1874, but he continued to create, the most famous of which are the symphonic poem suite "My Motherland" composed of six independent symphonic poems and the First String Quartet "My Life". He is known as "the founder of Czech national music", "the father of new music" and "Glinka of the Czech Republic".