From our Prague partners, OperaPlus:
Almost half of Czechs cannot name any classical music composer. Most cited are Wolfgang Amadeo Mozart and Bedrich Smetana.
That sounds like a great result.
We’d be surprised if 1 in 10 Brits in 2025 could name a serious composer, and maybe 1 in 100 Americans.
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