Bedrich Smetana: spartiti difficile

Quando Smetana compose il suo Trio per pianoforte nell'autunno del 1855, stava elaborando il dolore per la morte della figlia Friederike di quattro anni. L'opera, altamente emotiva, è anche la sua pri...

Smetana's piano sketch Macbeth, also known as Macbeth and the Witches, after William Shakespeare's tragedy, originated in 1859 while the composer was living in Sweden. Some scholars believe that it wa...

Die Moldau (Vltava) è il secondo movimento del ciclo di poemi sinfonici "Ma Vlast" del compositore ceco Bedrich Smetana. In questo brano, Smetana utilizza la pittura tonale per evocare i suoni di uno...

Experience one of the most famous masterpieces of symphonic program music in a first-class arrangement for concert band: "The Moldau" by Bedřich Smetana, published by the renowned Southern Music Compa...

The Bartered Bride (Czech: Prodaná nev??sta, The Sold Fiancée) is the second opera, a comedy in three acts, by Bedøich Smetana. The Czech libretto was written by Karel Sabina, who had also written the...

The Bartered Bride (Czech: Prodaná nev??sta, The Sold Fiancée) is the second opera, a comedy in three acts, by Bedøich Smetana. The Czech libretto was written by Karel Sabina, who had also written the...

Libuše è un'"opera da festival" in tre atti, con musiche di Bedřich Smetana. Il libretto è stato originariamente scritto in tedesco da Josef Wenzig e poi tradotto in ceco da Ervín Špindler. Nel mito s...

Im Jahre 1864 fand anlässlich des 300. Geburtstages von William Shakespeare ein grossartiger Festakt in Prag statt, wozu für den abschliessenden Höhepunkt der Marsch zur Shakespeare-Feier komponiert w...

His comic opera The Bartered Bride is one of the most important works in the Slavonic opera repertoire and the Overture is among one of Smetana's most brilliant and inspired orchestral pieces. (Concer...

His comic opera The Bartered Bride is one of the most important works in the Slavonic opera repertoire and the Overture is among one of Smetana's most brilliant and inspired orchestral pieces. (Concer...

Die Moldau (Vltava) è il secondo movimento del ciclo di poemi sinfonici "Ma Vlast" del compositore ceco Bedrich Smetana. In questo brano, Smetana utilizza la pittura tonale per evocare i suoni di uno...

In these works Smetana combined the symphonic poem form pioneered by Franz Liszt with the ideals of nationalistic music which were current in the late nineteenth century. Each poem depicts some aspect...