Product Description
Music Book, 79 pages ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Bedřich Smetana. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. 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 progressi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=140422 ... Read more

Product Description
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Czech-Romanians, Franz Kafka, Bertha Von Suttner, Robert Musil, Bedřich Smetana, Max Brod, Julius Podlipny, Milena Jesenská, Joseph Škoda, Ignat Bednarik, Jan Tausinger, Julius Fučík, Count Ottokar Czernin, Czechs in Croatia, Lascăr Vorel, Hermann Pokorny, Alois Musil, Felix Weltsch, Ottokar Nováček, Leopold Lojka, Austroslavism, Konstantin Josef Jireček, Emil Škoda, Prince Lichnowsky, Hilde Krahl, Czechs of Romania, Karel Hlaváček, Jiří Kristián Z Lobkowicz, Franciszek Krajowski, Alfred Musil. Excerpt:The Czechs (Czech : e i, Pémové , Romanian : Cehi, Pemi , Hungarian : Bánáti csehek ) are an ethnic minority in Romania , numbering 3,938 people according to the 2002 census. The majority of Romanian Czechs live in the south-west of the country, with around 60 % of them living in Cara -Severin County , where they make up 0.7 % of the population.As an officially-recognised ethnic minority, Czechs, together with Slovaks , have one seat reserved in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies .Communes with the largest Czech population percentage Notable Czech-Romanians See also (online edition) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Ignat Bednarik Ignat Bednarik (March 8, 1882 - March 11, 1963) was a Romanian painter who worked in almost every genre of painting before devoting himself purely to watercolor . He was also interested in decorative art , design , interior decoration and book illustration . In his lifetime, he produced more than 3,000 works of art.Biography Early life Bednarik was born in Orschowa (Or ova) , at the time part of Austria-Hungary , to Czech parents; he was son of the second marriage of Adalbert Bednarik (originally from Moravia ) and Genoveva Hauschka , followed by two sisters, Genoveva and Maria .While a pupil at the Traian High School in Drobeta Turnu Severin ,... ... Read more

Product Description
This Book Is In English. ... Read more

Product Description
This Book Is In English. ... Read more

Product Description
This Book Is In English. ... Read more

Product Description
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: Bertha Von Suttner, Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, David Popper, Áron Chorin, Zdeněk Fibich, Gotthard Deutsch, David Kaufmann, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Joseph Škoda, Josepha Duschek, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Václav Suk, Nehemiah Brüll, Rudolf Von Habsburg-Lothringen, Jan Václav Voříšek, Count Ottokar Czernin, William F. Lukes, Count Leopold Berchtold, Franz Xaver Niemetschek, Friedrich Kraus, Bedřich Diviš Weber, František Zdeněk Skuherský, Jan Křtitel Kuchař, Moses Löb Bloch, Gustav Karpeles, Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler Von Hofmannsthal, Benjamin Wolf Löw, Václav Tomášek, Ábrahám Lederer, Ottokar Nováček, Jan Neruda, Eduard Albert, Wolf Pascheles, Alexander Dreyschock, Raphael Basch, František Schubert, Konstantin Josef Jireček, Emil Škoda, Jan August Vitásek, Josef Emanuel Fischer Von Röslerstamm, Hermann Wassertrilling, Heinrich Porges, Otto Perutz, Max Dvořák, Abraham Neuda, Pavel Křížkovský, Karolina Světlá, Vítězslav Hálek, Moses Samuel Zuckermandl, August Breisky, Eliška Krásnohorská, Anna Bayerová, Hermenegild Jireček, Emil Weyr. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. 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...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=140422 ... Read more

Product Description
The second in Smetana's "Ma Vlast" a six-part series of tone poems inspired by his Czech homeland, Vltava (Die Moldau in German) is named for the river that flows through the heart of Prague. This new study score is a digitally-enhanced reprint of the large score issued in Leipzig by Breitkopf und Hartel as part of their Orchester-Bibliothek series early in the 20th century - now in a very readable, convenient size. ... Read more

Product Description
Treasury of orchestral works: "The Moldau" and "From Bohemian Fields and Groves" from Má Vlast; also, the Overture and three dances—"Polka," "Furiant" and "Dance of the Comedians"—from The Bartered Bride. Reprinted from authoritative editions. Instrumentation.
... Read more

Product Description
Rondo (Original) by Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884).
Edited by Kurt Herrmann.
For 2 Pianos / 8 Hands.
Published by Edition Peters (P04479).
ISBN M-3007-5569-4. ... Read more

Product Description
This sheet music was newly engraved from early and authoritative editions. ... Read more

Product Description
Smetana's From My Native Land for Violin and Piano (Urtext edition). Includes violin solo part and violin accompaniment. Henle Number HN 756. ... Read more

Product Description
The Eulenburg Audio+Score Series covers more than 200 years of the world's favorite classical music. Each of the 50 volumes consists of a clearly-presented and authoritative musical score, an informative preface detailing the biographical and creative background, and a Naxos CD containing the work in full length. Eulenburg Audio+Score is the new way to hear, read, and understand music for everyone from the casual music lover to the expert enthusiast. Each volume includes a study score of the music with an informative article and a CD with a complete recording of the featured piece. ... Read more

Product Description
Complete scores to orchestral masterworks on DVD-ROM! These unprecedented collections give musicians the opportunity to build a personal library of orchestra repertoire at an incredibly low price. The DVD-ROM contains the same published parts musicians have been using for many years. If these parts were purchased separately, this collection would easily cost $1000 or more! Works are viewable and printable on PC or Macintosh. No access codes or special software is required. The DVD uses Abode Acrobat Reader technology, which is included on the CD. This volume includes works by Dvorak (9 symphonies, 3 concertos, 5 overtures, Symphonic Variations, Tone Poems, Romance in F Minor, Serenade for Strings, and more) * Rimsky-Korsakov (Scheherazade, Christmas Eve Suite, Sadko, Tsar's Bride Overture, Capriccio Espagnole, Russian Easter Overture, Procession of the Nobles Le Coq c'Or Suite, 2 symphonies and more) * Borodin (Symphony No. 2, On the Steppes of Central Asia, Polovtsian Dances) * Scriabin (5 symphonies, Piano Concert in F# Minor) * Smetana (Ma Vlast, Bartered Bride Overture and Dances, Hakon Jarl, Richard III, Wallenstein's Camp). ... Read more

Product Description
Ma Vlast No. 1 Vysehrad ... Read more

Product Description
This is a copy of: Encore Arts in Performance Magazine; Volume XII, No. 4 -- Portland Opera; Civic Auditorium -- April 28 /May 2, 5, 1984. The Bartered Bride, by Bedrich Smetana. Contents Include: Cascade Festival of Music; The Making of The Bartered Bride, by Stanley Johnson; About the Artists; The Bartered Bride on Record, by Michael LaBaugh; Arts and Performance: Portland, by Victor Graf; and more ... ... Read more