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Bedrich Smetana Date/Place of Birth:  2 March, 1824 in Litomysl, Bohemia Personality:  A bespectacled, slender, grim and stoic-looking man, Smetana was one of the greatest Bohemian composers, a piano virtuoso, conductor and highly respected teacher. During his early adulthood, Smetana was hardly recognized as a musician and composer in his homeland. Most of his concerts were poorly attended and received lukewarm response from the public. Yet, there were not many new students enrolling at his music institute. During that time, he lived in such abject poverty, to the extent that he could not even own a piano. Subsequently, he tried to earn a living in Sweden. During the Sweden period, Smetana gained a reputation as a pianist/conductor and teacher which, however, eclipsed his stature as a composer. Besides that, he was active in promoting music of famous composers, ranging from Handel to Liszt. Therefore, he enjoyed his life very much in Sweden. Nevertheless, due to inexpressible yearning for performing his music in his beloved homeland, Smetana composed the first opera "The Brandenburgers in Bohemia" for the opera competition in Prague. As a result, it was received rapturously and he won the competition. He was then appointed as the principal conductor of Prague Provisional Theatre. Unfortunately, although his second opera "The Bartered Bride" was extremely popular during that time, there were many critics showing disdain for him and invariably gave unrepentantly bad opinions about his music, with the common reason that it showed Germanic influence and Wagnerism. Yet, the public was influenced blindly by those hostile critics. That was why Smetana was underappreciated in his homeland.

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Sierra Chamber Society Program Notes Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 15 (1855) String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor "From My Life" (1876) Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 15 (1855) Chamber music played a very small part in the works of Czech composer Bedrich Smetana. His most popular works, outside his native land, remain the opera The Bartered Bride and the cycle of tone poems Ma Vlast (My Fatherland), of which by far the most often played and recorded is The Moldau . Though few in number, his three chamber music compositions played an important role in his musical output. His two string quartets and the piano trio all held extra-musical significance for Smetana. His First String Quartet in E minor (1876) is entitled "From My Life" and musically chronicles his youth, loves and vocation, culminating with the onset of his deafness. The Second Quartet in D minor (1882) serves as sequel to the First, continuing his life story. Op. 14 , and

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Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Music and Nationalism Nationalism was the most successful political force of the 19th century. It emerged from two main sources: the Romantic exaltation of "feeling" and "identity" and the Liberal requirement that a legitimate state be based on a "people" rather than, for example, a dynasty, God, or imperial domination. Both Romantic "identity nationalism" and Liberal "civic nationalism" were essentially middle class movements. There were two main ways of exemplification: the French method of "inclusion" - essentially that anyone who accepted loyalty to the civil French state was a "citizen". In practice this meant the enforcement of a considerable degree of uniformity, for instance the destruction of regional languages. The German method, required by political circumstances, was to define the "nation" in ethnic terms. Ethnicity in practice came down to speaking German and sometimes just having a German name. For the largely German-speaking Slavic middle classes of Prague, Agram (Zagreb) etc. who took up the nationalist ideal, the ethnic aspect became even more important than it had been for the Germans.

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Opera Chic Bedrich Smetana November 11, 2007 I am your density: Crispin Glover’s Affinity for Smetana Inarguably eccentric 43-year-old Hollyweird actor, Crispin Glover George McFly in the 1985 hit Back to the Future – was seen out and about in NYC recently to promote Beowulf , in which he voices Grendel , (and also to promote his own cinematic work called, "It Is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE"). Tuesday afternoon found him at the Met Museum browsing the collections. Glover has a passion for Czech castles, and apparently beds-down with his current girlfriend, Mara LaFontaine, in the former residence of late Czech composer Bedřich Smetana . WHUT? yes i live in smetana's old house, yes im a nerd, what of it, got a prob? "[Crispin Glover] patrolled the museum’s sumptuous period rooms with Ms. LaFontaine, looking for decorating tips for his 15-bedroom castle in the Czech Republic. (“ Bedrich Smetana wrote his last opera in the room I’m using as my den,” he said.)" Posted by opera chic on November 11, 2007 at 08:37 PM in Bedrich Smetana Permalink Comments (2) TrackBack (0) ... Save to del.icio.us

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register now! Home Genres Classical Music ... S > Smetana, Bedrich Bedrich Smetana (1824 - 1884) View Discography Smetana holds an important place in the development of musical nationalism in his native Bohemia, where he was born in 1824, the son of a master brewer in the service of Count Waldstein and others. His career was interrupted by a period of self-imposed exile in Sweden, after the political disappointments that followed the turmoil of 1848. He was instrumental in the establishment of Czech national opera and a Czech national style, in particular in his symphonic poems. He was deaf in later life, but continued to compose, an autobiographical element appearing in his string quartets. Operas The best known of Smetana's operas is The Bartered Bride, the overture of which makes a brilliant opening to any orchestral concert programme. His other operas have enjoyed less international success. Orchestral Music The best known of Smetana's orchestral works is the cycle of symphonic poems Ma vlast (My Country), a set of six works, of which Vltava (River Moldau), which follows the historic course of the river as it flows towards Prague, is the most frequently heard. Chamber Music Smetana wrote two string quartets, the first with the title "From my life". There is a G minor Piano Trio and two short pieces for violin and piano under the title From the Homeland.

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HOME SUBSCRIBE ARCHIVE SUBJECTS ... SKIP to main content USERNAME PASSWORD Subscriber? Lost password? Smetana, Bedrich SUBJECT OF 2 Reviews from 1957 to 1964 CONNECTIONS HAS BORN DATE HAS DIED DATE HUMAN BEINGS Bart³k, P©ter Evans, Geraint, Sir Gebr©, Dimitri Gobbi, Tito ... Verdi, Giuseppe SOUND RECORDINGS Dvor¡k: Slavonic dances. Smetana: From my life (Sound recording) Hovhannes: Saint Vartan symphony, op. 80 (Sound recording) ... (Sound recording) WRITERS Anton N Dvor K Two great comic operas by Discus Music in the round/Review, June 1964 , 3 pp. Harper's Magazine is an American journal of literature, politics, culture, and the arts published from 1850. Subscriptions start at $16.97 a year. About Harper's Contact Harper's Advertising information

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