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| Composer : | Smetana, Bedrich (1824 - 1884) | ||
| Instrumentation : | 3 clarinets (Trio) | ||
| Style : | Classical | ||
| Arranger : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||
| Publisher : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL | ||
| Date : | 1878 | ||
| Copyright : | Public Domain | ||
| Added by magataganm, 14 Jun 2013 Bedrich Smetana (1824 – 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride, for the symphonic cycle Má vlast ("My Fatherland"), which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native land, and for his First String Quartet From My Life. In 1879, Smetana had written to a friend, the Czech poet Jan Neruda, revealing fears of the onset of madness. By the winter of 1882–83 he was experiencing depression, insomnia, and hallucinations, together with giddiness, cramp and a temporary loss of speech. In 1883 he began writing a new symphonic suite, Prague Carnival, but could get no further than an Introduction and a Polonaise. He started a new opera, Viola, based on the character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, but wrote only fragments as his mental state gradually deteriorated. In October 1883 his behaviour at a private reception in Prague disturbed his friends; by the middle of February 1884 he had ceased to be coherent, and was periodically violent. On 23 April his family, unable to nurse him any longer, removed him to the Kateřinky Lunatic Asylum in Prague, where he died on 12 May 1884. "Tři ženské sbory" (3 Female Choruses) was composed by Smetana in 1878 and consists of 3 movements: 1.Má hvězda (My Star) 2.Přiletěly vlaštovičky (The Swallows Have Returned) 3.Za hory slunce zapadá (The Sunset over the Mountains) Although this work was originally written for Choir (3 Female Voices), I created this arrangement for Bb Clarinet Trio. | |||
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