Bohemian composer Bedřich Smetana, one of the primary influences that shaped Czech music, kept composing even after becoming deaf due to illness – and delivered one of his most famous works ...

It’s hard to imagine a more fitting setting for Bedrich Smetana’s “Vltava” (better known to many as “The Moldau”) than the Filene Center at Wolf Trap on Friday night, where heavy rains ...

I went to Czechoslovakia in a fourth-grade music appreciation class. Of course, it was only in my head; I was listening to “The Moldau,” by 19th century Czech composer Bedrich Smetana. It ...

It was 195 years ago today that Bedrich Smetana was born, in a part of the world that would become, for most of the 20th century, Czechoslovakia.

More years ago than I care to remember, I first made the acquaintance of Bedrich Smetana and his masterpiece Má Vlast. Smetana wrote much more than this, but it's become something of a signature ...

This Composer is Sick, Ep 3 - Bedrich Smetana and the High E of Doom. John Schaefer: I'm John Schaefer, and you're listening to the Artist Propulsion Lab podcast. Today, flute-player Emi Ferguson ...

In all the years this column has been running, I don't think I have written one word about Bedrich Smetana. Yet he is an important figure in Czech music of the 19th century, described by some as ...

Czech Philharmonic brings first-rate playing to Bedrich Smetana’s Má Vlast — album review on whatsapp (opens in a new window) Save Richard Fairman. Published February 28 2024.