Bedřich Smetana: Vltava (1/2)

A holy Czech national composition about the Moldau river, from Bedřich Smetana's cycle of symphonic poems "My Country" (Má vlast). Pictures added by Lumajs. Don't forget the second (longer) part of the composition here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcM84dhFfw8 For some additional comments of mine about the composition, see http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/03/bedrich-smetana-moldau.html

Bedřich Smetana 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 has been regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride and for the symphonic cycle Má vlast, which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native land.

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