After failing to establish his career in Prague, he left for Sweden, where he set up as a teacher and choirmaster in Gothenburg, and began to write large-scale orchestral works. His first nationalistic music was written during the 1848 Prague uprising, in which he briefly participated.
After conventional schooling, he studied music under Josef Proksch in Prague. Smetana was naturally gifted as a composer, and gave his first public performance at the age of 6. It contains the famous symphonic poem " Vltava", also popularly known by its German name "Die Moldau" (in English, "The Moldau"). Internationally he is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride and for the symphonic cycle Má vlast ("My Fatherland"), which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native Bohemia. Bedřich Smetana ( / ˌ b ɛ d ər ʒ ɪ x ˈ s m ɛ t ə n ə/ BED-ər-zhikh SMET-ə-nə, Czech: ( listen) 2 March 1824 – ) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival." He has been regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music.
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