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Bedrich Smetana

Bedrich Smetana (1824 - 1884)

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Bedřich Smetana (2 March 1824 - 12 May 1884) 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 ("My Fatherland"), 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" (in English, "The 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. He threw himself into the musical life of the city, primarily as a champion of the new genre of Czech opera. In 1866 his first two operas, The Brandenburgers in Bohemia and The Bartered Bride, were premiered at Prague's new Provisional Theatre, the latter achieving great popularity. In that same year, Smetana became the theatre's principal conductor, but the years of his conductorship were marked by controversy. Factions within the city's musical establishment considered his identification with the progressive ideas of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner inimical to the development of a distinctively Czech opera style. This opposition interfered with his creative work, and may have hastened a decline in health that precipitated his resignation from the theatre in 1874.

By the end of 1874, Smetana had become completely deaf but, freed from his theatre duties and the related controversies, he began a period of sustained composition that continued for almost the rest of his life. His contributions to Czech music were increasingly recognised and honoured, but a mental collapse early in 1884 led to his incarceration in an asylum and subsequent death. His reputation as the founding father of Czech music has endured in his native country, where advocates have raised his status above that of his contemporaries and successors. However, relatively few of Smetana's works are in the international repertory, and most foreign commentators tend to regard Antonín Dvořák as a more significant Czech composer. (Hide extended text) ... (Read all)
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Song, Chanson, Lied (Album Leaf op. 2, no. 2)
Bedrich Smetana

Piano solo / 1 PDF / 1 MP3 / MIDI / Intermediate

By kheidtmann, the 18 Aug 2024

Schubert, Franz Peter : Der Neugierige (D.795)

Piano solo / 1 PDF /
Arranger : Smetana, Bedrich

By Fs, the 25 Apr 2024

La Moldava (Main theme)
Bedrich Smetana

Guitar, Violin / 1 PDF / 1 MP3 / Easy
Arranger : Bizzarri, Bruno

1874
By brunobizzarri, the 28 Dec 2023

Autumn Leaf - Andante ma non troppo
Bedrich Smetana

Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon / 1 PDF / MIDI / Beginner
Arranger : Wheelwright, Lance

By lwheel, the 09 Oct 2023

Autumn Leaf - Moderato con anima
Bedrich Smetana

Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon / 1 PDF / MIDI / Intermediate
Arranger : Wheelwright, Lance

By lwheel, the 06 Oct 2023

Autumn Leaves - allegro commodo
Bedrich Smetana

3 clarinets (Trio) / 1 PDF / MIDI / Easy
Arranger : Wheelwright, Lance

By lwheel, the 02 Oct 2023

Autumn Leaf - vivace
Bedrich Smetana

String Trio: Violon, Viola, Cello / 1 PDF / MIDI / Intermediate to difficult
Arranger : Wheelwright, Lance

By lwheel, the 29 Sep 2023

Chanson
Bedrich Smetana

Flute and Clarinet / 1 PDF / MIDI / Intermediate to difficult
Arranger : Wheelwright, Lance

By lwheel, the 28 Sep 2023

Prelude
Bedrich Smetana

4 clarinets (quartet) / 1 PDF / MIDI / Intermediate
Arranger : Wheelwright, Lance

By lwheel, the 27 Sep 2023

Fuga (Fuge)
Bedrich Smetana

Saxophone quartet / 5 PDF / Intermediate to difficult
Arranger : Siebein, Kurt

1847
By saxpiacl, the 03 Aug 2023

Longing, Le Desir (Bagatelles und Impromptus, JB 1:19, no. 4)
Bedrich Smetana

Piano solo (original instrumentation) / 2 PDF / 1 MP3 / MIDI / Intermediate

By kheidtmann, the 14 Jan 2023

Toccata (A Treasure of Melodies 2, JB 1:49, B 71, no. 3)
Bedrich Smetana

2 Trumpets (duet) / 2 PDF / MIDI / Easy
Arranger : Heidtmann, Klaus

1849
By kheidtmann, the 07 Jan 2022

March of the Prague Student Legion - Pochod Pražké Studentské Legie - Organ transcription ((JB 1:36))
Bedrich Smetana

Organ solo / 1 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Arranger : MACHELLA, MAURIZIO

By giordaniello, the 08 Nov 2021

Polka (Prodaná nevsta, The Bartered Bride, Act 1, no. 2)
Bedrich Smetana

Piano solo / 2 PDF / 1 MP3 / MIDI / Easy

By kheidtmann, the 17 Jun 2021

Toccata (A Treasure of Melodies 2, JB 1:49, B 71, no. 3)
Bedrich Smetana

Piano solo (original instrumentation) / 2 PDF / 1 MP3 / MIDI / Beginner

1850
By kheidtmann, the 29 Mar 2021

Vlatva (Die Moldau)
Bedrich Smetana

Piano solo / 1 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Arranger : Cervellin, Marco

By wasocu, the 13 Nov 2020

Vlatva (The Moldau)
Bedrich Smetana

Tenor Saxophone, Piano / 1 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Arranger : Cervellin, Marco

By wasocu, the 30 Nov 2019

Waltz (Proklad Melodií, A Treasure of Melodies, Melodien-Schatz, vol. 2, JB 1:49, no. 2)
Bedrich Smetana

Piano solo (original instrumentation) / 2 PDF / 1 MP3 / MIDI / Beginner
Arranger : Heidtmann, Klaus

1850
By kheidtmann, the 25 May 2019

Quatuor No.1 - Largo sostenuto (No.3) (JB 1:105, T.116 No.3)
Bedrich Smetana

Piano solo / 1 PDF /
Arranger : Smetana, Bedrich

1876
By Fs, the 27 May 2016

Quartet No.1 "From My Life" (JB 1:105, T.116)
Bedrich Smetana

1 Piano, 4 Hands (duet) / 1 PDF /
Arranger : Wöss, Josef Venantius

1876
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