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Title: Bedrich Smetana The Two Widows.(Sound recording review)
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Title: Bedrich Smetana: Ma vlast / My Country.(Sound recording review)
Author: Bohuslav Vitek
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Date: April 1, 2009
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Chapters: Burials in the Czech Republic, Bedřich Smetana, Sedlec Ossuary, Norbert of Xanten, Ludmila of Bohemia, Olšany Cemetery, Old Jewish Cemetery, Vyšehrad Cemetery, New Jewish Cemetery, Podevin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bedich Smetana (Czech pronunciation: ; 2 March 1824, Litomyl, Bohemia 12 May 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, and for the symphonic cycle Má vlast ("My Fatherland") which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native land. Smetana was naturally gifted as a pianist, and gave his first public performance at the age of six. After his 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. During this period of his life Smetana was twice married; of six daughters, three died in infancy. 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 principa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=140422 ... Read more

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Chapters: 19th-Century Composers, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Schubert, Bedřich Smetana, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, David Popper, Václav Suk, Jan Václav Voříšek, Franz Limmer, Philipp Jakob Riotte, Anna Yesipova, Bedřich Diviš Weber, František Zdeněk Skuherský, Maximilian Stadler, Václav Tomášek, Johann Von Herbeck, Alexander Dreyschock, William Wallace, Carel Anton Fodor, Johann Baptist Gänsbacher, Anselm Hüttenbrenner, Michael Umlauf, Thomas Baker, Richard Genée, Jan August Vitásek, Ignaz Assmayer, Emanuel Aloys Förster, Heinrich Proch, Max Maretzek, Johann Baptist Schenk, Béni Egressy, Johann Peter Pixis, Franz Stockhausen, Rudolf Raimann, Joseph Panny. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 169. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Frédéric François Chopin, in Polish Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (the surname is pronounced in French, and usually in English; 1 March 1810 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of French-Polish parentage. He was one of the great masters of Romantic music. Chopin was born in the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw to a French-expatriate father and Polish mother, and was a child-prodigy pianist and composer. Following the Russian suppression of the Polish November 1830 Uprising, Chopin settled in France as part of the Polish Great Emigration. In Paris he supported himself as a composer and piano teacher, giving few public performances. After romantic involvements with several Polish women, from 1837 to 1847 he carried on a relationship with the French novelist Amantine Aurore Lucie Dupin, baronne Dudevant, better known by her pseudonym, George Sand. For the greater part of his life Chopin suffered from poor health; he died in Paris, aged 39, of pulmonary tuberculosis. The great majority of Chopin's compositions were written for the piano as solo instrument; al...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10823 ... Read more

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Chapters: List of Compositions by Bedřich Smetana, Má Vlast, String Quartet No. 1, String Quartet No. 2. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Below is a List of compositions by Bedich Smetana sorted by genre. B. numbers are from the catalogue by Frantiek Barto. T. numbers are from the 1893 catalogue by Karel Teige. See List of operas by Smetana. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17934848 ... Read more

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Chapters: Bedřich Smetana. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 860. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bedich Smetana (Czech pronunciation: ; 2 March 1824, Litomyl, Bohemia 12 May 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, and for the symphonic cycle Má vlast ("My Fatherland") which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native land. Smetana was naturally gifted as a pianist, and gave his first public performance at the age of six. After his 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. During this period of his life Smetana was twice married; of six daughters, three died in infancy. 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 progress...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=140422 ... Read more

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Die schönsten Opern der Welt und ihre Libretti in einer einzigartigen Sammlung. Genießen Sie zum Klang Ihrer Lieblingsoper die Original-Texte auf Ihrem Kindle Reader. Alle LIbretti enthalten interaktive Inhaltsverzeichnisse und lassen so bequem einzelne Akte und, falls mehrsprachig, die jeweilige Sprache sofort auswählen. Dieses Libretto enthält folgende Sprachen: Deutsch, Tschechisch. ... Read more

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Die schönsten Opern der Welt und ihre Libretti in einer einzigartigen Sammlung. Genießen Sie zum Klang Ihrer Lieblingsoper die Original-Texte auf Ihrem Kindle Reader. Alle LIbretti enthalten interaktive Inhaltsverzeichnisse und lassen so bequem einzelne Akte und, falls mehrsprachig, die jeweilige Sprache sofort auswählen. Dieses Libretto enthält folgende Sprachen: Deutsch, Tschechisch. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Franz Kafka, Bertha von Suttner, Robert Musil, Bedřich Smetana, Count Ottokar von Czernin, Max Brod, Julius Podlipny, Milena Jesenská, Joseph Škoda, Ignat Bednarik, Julius Fučík, Czechs in Croatia, Felix Weltsch, Alois Musil, Hermann Pokorny, Ottokar Nováček, Leopold Lojka, Austroslavism, Konstantin Josef Jireček, Emil Škoda, Hilde Krahl, Prince Lichnowsky, Karel Hlaváček, Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz, Franciszek Krajowski, Alfred Musil,. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Bedřich Smetana (Czech pronunciation: ; 1824, Litomyšl, Bohemia - 1884, Prague, Bohemia) 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, and for the symphonic cycle Má vlast ("My Fatherland") which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native land. Smetana was naturally gifted as a pianist, and gave his first public performance at the age of six. After his 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. During this period of his life Smetana was twice married; of six daughters, three died in infancy. 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...http://booksllc.net/?l=en ... Read more

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Title: Karel Ancerl: Bedrich Smetana: My Country, Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto, film Who is Karel Ancerl.(Movie review)(Video recording review)
Author: Bohuslav Vitek
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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Frédéric Chopin, Franz Schubert, Bedřich Smetana, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, David Popper, Václav Suk, Jan Václav Voříšek, Franz Limmer, Philipp Jakob Riotte, Bedřich Diviš Weber, František Zdeněk Skuherský, Maximilian Stadler, Václav Tomášek, Johann Von Herbeck, Alexander Dreyschock, William Wallace, Carel Anton Fodor, Johann Baptist Gänsbacher, Anselm Hüttenbrenner, Michael Umlauf, Thomas Baker, Richard Genée, Jan August Vitásek, Emanuel Aloys Förster, Heinrich Proch, Max Maretzek, Johann Baptist Schenk, Béni Egressy, Johann Peter Pixis, Rudolf Raimann, Joseph Panny. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Frédéric François Chopin, in Polish Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (the surname is pronounced in French, and usually in English; 1 March 1810 17 October 1849), was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of French-Polish parentage. He was one of the great masters of Romantic music. Chopin was born in the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw to a French-expatriate father and Polish mother, and was a child-prodigy pianist and composer. Following the Russian suppression of the Polish November 1830 Uprising, Chopin settled in France as part of the Polish Great Emigration. In Paris he supported himself as a composer and piano teacher, giving few public performances. After romantic involvements with several Polish women, from 1837 to 1847 he carried on a relationship with the French novelist, Aurore Dupin, better known by her pseudonym, George Sand. For the greater part of his life Chopin suffered from poor health; he died in Paris, aged 39, of pulmonary tuberculosis. The great majority of Chopin's compositions were written for the piano as solo instrument; all his extant works feature the piano in one way or another. They are technically demanding but emphasize nuance and ex...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10823 ... Read more

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Chapters: Ludwig Van Beethoven, Gabriel Fauré, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bedřich Smetana, Johnnie Ray, Evelyn Glennie, Craig Finn, Signmark, Beverley O'sullivan, William Boyce, Robert Franz, Mariko Takamura. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 108. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ludwig van Beethoven (pronounced (U.S.) or (UK); German: ; baptised 17 December 1770 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time. Born in Bonn, which was then capital of the Electorate of Cologne and a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in present-day Germany, he moved to Vienna in his early twenties and settled there, studying with Joseph Haydn and quickly gaining a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. His hearing began to deteriorate in the late 1790s, yet he continued to compose, conduct, and perform, even after becoming completely deaf. Prince-Elector's Palace (Kurfürstliches Schloss) in Bonn, where the Beethoven family had been active since the 1730s Beethoven was the grandson of a musician of Flemish origin named Lodewijk van Beethoven (17121773). Beethoven was named after his grandfather, as Lodewijk is the Dutch counterpart of Ludwig. Beethoven's grandfather was employed as a bass singer at the court of the Elector of Cologne, rising to become Kapellmeister (music director). He had one son, Johann van Beethoven (17401792), who worked as a tenor in the same musical establishment, also giving lessons on piano and violin to supplement his income. Johann married Maria Magdalena Keverich in 1767; she was the daughter of Johann Heinrich Keverich, who had been the head chef at the court of the Archbi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17914 ... Read more