question: Whose musical style was most influenced by politics, Bedřich Smetana or George Gershwin?
answer: Bedřich Smetana
context: Title: Smetana (disambiguation)
  Passage: Smetana often refers to the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana.
  Title: Antonín Dvořák
  Passage: Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ] ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer.  After Bedřich Smetana, he was the second Czech composer to achieve worldwide recognition.  Following Smetana's nationalist example, Dvořák frequently employed aspects, specifically rhythms, of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia.  Dvořák's own style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them."
  Title: Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin
  Passage: Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin is a 1952 album by pianist Oscar Peterson of popular songs written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin.  Several tracks were included on the 1959 album "Oscar Peterson Plays the George Gershwin Songbook".
  Title: List of compositions by Bedřich Smetana
  Passage: Below is a List of compositions by Bedřich Smetana sorted by genre, catalogue numbers, original and English titles.  JB numbers are from "Tematický katalog skladeb Bedřicha Smetany" (Thematic Catalogue of Works by Bedřich Smetana) by Jiří Berkovec (Prague, 1999).  B. numbers are from the catalogue by František Bartoš.  T. numbers are from the 1893 catalogue by Karel Teige.
  Title: Libuše (opera)
  Passage:    is a '"festival opera" in three acts, with music by Bedřich Smetana.  The libretto was originally written in German by Josef Wenzig, and was then translated into Czech by Ervin Špindler.  In Czech historical myth, Libuše, the title character, prophesied the founding of Prague.  The opera was composed in 1871–72 for the coronation of Franz Josef as Czech king.  This did not happen and Smetana saved "Libuše" for the opening of the National Theatre in Prague, which took place nine years later on 11 June 1881.  After the destruction of the National Theatre in a fire, the same opera opened the reconstructed theatre in 1883.  The first US performance was reported to have occurred March 1986, in a concert version at Carnegie Hall with Eve Queler and the Opera Orchestra of New York.
  Title: Eleanora Ehrenbergů
  Passage: Eleanora Ehrenbergů (sometimes spelled Eleanora Ehrenbergová or Eleanora Ehrenberg) (1 November 1832 – 30 August 1912) was a Czech operatic soprano.  In 1854 she made her professional opera debut at the Estates Theatre in the title role of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor".  In 1866 she created the role of Mařenka in the world première of Bedřich Smetana's "The Bartered Bride", and in 1868 she portrayed Jitka in the premiere of Smetana's "Dalibor".  She retired from the stage sometime in the 1880s.
  Title: Viola (opera)
  Passage: Viola is an unfinished romantic opera by Bedřich Smetana.  The libretto was written by Eliška Krásnohorská, and is based on Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night".  The composer did some work on it in 1874 and then came back to it in 1883, when he only managed to orchestrate a few scenes; the opera was left incomplete upon Smetana's death in 1884.
  Title: Bedřich Smetana
  Passage: Bedřich Smetana (] ; 2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood.  He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music.  Internationally he is best known for his opera "The Bartered Bride" and for the symphonic cycle "Má vlast" ("My Homeland"), which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native land.
  Title: George Gershwin
  Passage: George Jacob Gershwin ( ; September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.  Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known.  Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions "Rhapsody in Blue" (1924) and "An American in Paris" (1928) as well as the opera "Porgy and Bess" (1935).
  Title: Bedřich Smetana Museum
  Passage: The Bedřich Smetana Museum (Muzeum Bedřicha Smetany) in Prague is a museum which is dedicated to the life and works of famous Czech composer Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884).  It is situated in the centre of Prague in a small block of buildings right next to Charles Bridge on the right bank of the river Vltava in the Old Town (Novotného lávka 1, 110 00 Praha 1).
citations: George Gershwin Bedřich Smetana