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Bedřich Smetana
Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival". He has been regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his 1866 opera The Bartered Bride and for the symphonic cycle Má vlast, which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native Bohemia. It contains the famous symphonic poem "Vltava", also popularly known by its German name "Die Moldau". Smetana was naturally gifted as a composer, and gave his first public performance at the age of six. After conventional schooling, he studied music under Josef Proksch in Prague. His first nationalistic music was written during the 1848 Prague uprising, in which he briefly participated. After failing to establish his career in Prague, he left for Sweden, where he set up as a teacher and choirmaster in Gothenburg, and began to write large-scale orchestral works. In the early 1860s, a more liberal political climate in Bohemia encouraged Smetana to return permanently to Prague. From Wikipedia (

Songs

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My Country. A Cycle of Symphonic Poems - Vltava (Moldau) (Allegro comodo, non agitato)
Bedřich Smetana & Česká filharmonie/Karel Ančerl
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Smetana: Má vlast, JB 1:112: II. Vltava "The Moldau" (Recorded 1983)
Berliner Philharmoniker
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Vltava
4 Tenoři
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My Country. A Cycle of Symphonic Poems - Vltava
Bedřich Smetana
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Smetana: Má vlast, JB 1:112: II. Vltava "The Moldau" (Recorded 1967)
Berliner Philharmoniker

Albums

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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36

2026
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Die Moldau

2025
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Cook, Eat, Listen to Classical Music

2024
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Bohemian Legacy

2026
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Smetana: Má Vlast

2025
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Šejna Profile, Vol. 4 (Remastered 2024)

2024
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Smetana: Má vlast, JB 1:112

2025
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Greig: Peer Gynt; Smetana: Haakon Jarl

2025
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Segerstam in Aarhus

2025
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Smetana: String Quartets

2025

Singles & EPs

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Má vlast, JB 1: 112: II. Vltava "The Moldau"

Single • 2025
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Smetana The Moldau (Studio Recording) (feat. Cleveland Orchestra & George Szell)

EP • 2023
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Can Can and Other Works

EP • 2022
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La Moldau

Single • 2025
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Mein Vaterland, Jb 1:112: No. 2, Die Moldau

EP • 2023
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String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor "From My Life": II. Allegro moderato alla Polka

Single • 2022
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Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 "From My Life" - Allegro

Single • 2025
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Má Vlast, JB 1:112: No. 2, Vltava

Single • 2023
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Smetana: Die Moldau "Vltava"

Single • 2024
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Smetana: Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 15: III. Finale. Presto (Live)

Single • 2022

Videos

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Accept - The Moldau B Smetana

Unlorddd Metal • 1K views
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Smetana: The Moldau | Czech Philharmonic & Semyon Bychkov

DW Classical Music • 93K views
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Smetana: Die verkaufte Braut – Ouvertüre ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Andrés Orozco-Estrada

hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony • 234K views
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[Stanislav Kochanovsky] スメタナ：モルダウ　Bedřich Smetana: Vltava (The Moldau), symphonic poem

Vonaroir • 855K views
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The Eye of the World Main Theme : The Wheel of Time (fan chosen music) - Vltava

The Car'a'carn • 1.7K views
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Proč bychom se netěšili

HomoHumanus • 497K views
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🎵 The Moldau (Vltava) - Bedřich Smetana 🎵

That’s Ollie • 676 views
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Гимн Израиля (Инструментальная версия) #гимнИзраиля #hatikva #nationalanthemofisrael

NATIONAL ANTHEMS • 2.5K views
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Бедржих Сметана - Влтава (Moldau)

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