During the nineteenth century the Czechs produced three eminent composers-Smetana, Dvorak, and Fibich.
Zdenko Fibich (1850-1900) was not so imbued with the national spirit as Smetana and Dvorak. His musical education had been essentially German. He wrote about 700 works, of which 350 short piano pieces, forming a kind of musical diary under the title of ' Moods, Impressions, and Memories ', are particularly noteworthy. The charming ' Poème ', well-known as a violin solo and also as a waltz-song, belongs to this diary.