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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)
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Smetana: Má vlast, JB 1:112: II. Vltava "The Moldau" (Recorded 1983)
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Vltava
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My Country. A Cycle of Symphonic Poems - Vltava
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Smetana: Má vlast, JB 1:112: II. Vltava "The Moldau" (Recorded 1967)

Albums

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

2026
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Segerstam in Aarhus

2025
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Smetana: Vltava (The Moldau); Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Liszt: Les Préludes; Sibelius: Valse triste

2025
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Russian String Quartets

2026
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Die Moldau

2025
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Smetana: String Quartets

2025
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Bohemian Legacy

2026
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Smetana: Má Vlast

2025
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Smetana: Má vlast, JB 1:112

2025
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Greig: Peer Gynt; Smetana: Haakon Jarl

2025

Singles & EPs

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

Single2025
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Má Vlast (LoFi Version)

Single2024
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Smetana: Vltava

Single2024
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La Moldau

Single2025
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Smetana: Die Moldau "Vltava"

Single2024
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Smetana The Moldau (Studio Recording) (feat. Cleveland Orchestra & George Szell)

EP2023
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Andante in E-Flat Major, JB 1:62

Single2025
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Smetana: The Moldau

Single2024
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Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 "From My Life" - Allegro

Single2025
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Smetana: Die Moldau

Single2024

Videos

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Accept - The Moldau B Smetana

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Smetana: The Moldau | Czech Philharmonic & Semyon Bychkov

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Smetana: Die verkaufte Braut – Ouvertüre ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Andrés Orozco-Estrada

hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony243K views
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Victor Borge - Best Piano Performance Ever!

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Бедржих Сметана - Влтава (Moldau)

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Smetana: The Moldau (Vltava) - version piano solo (arr. Matyáš Novák)

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[Stanislav Kochanovsky] スメタナ:モルダウ Bedřich Smetana: Vltava (The Moldau), symphonic poem

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Гимн Израиля (Инструментальная версия) #гимнИзраиля #hatikva #nationalanthemofisrael

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The Eye of the World Main Theme : The Wheel of Time (fan chosen music) - Vltava

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