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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Smetana Hall in Prague understandably hears a lot of the work of Bedrich Smetana -- not just because it bears his name, either. The hall is a landmark of the Czech Republic, which Smetana ...

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 ...

Bedrich Smetana is one of the most beloved Czech composers -- two others are Antonin Dvorak and Leos Janacek -- and particularly admired for the orchestral cycle "Ma Vlast" ("My Country") and the ...

Smetana's Soldier For Veterans Day, Bedrich Smetana's musical picture of a soldier. The soldier Smetana had in mind was one Albrecht Wallenstein, who fought in Europe in the early 17th century.

When, where: 8 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m. (no intermission) Friday at Meyerson Symphony Center, 2301 Flora. The story: Don't let the possibly unfamiliar composer's name or the prickly ...

By 1874, Smetana had become deaf in one ear, but continued to compose until his death on 12 May 1884. Smetana was survived by his second wife Bettina, their daughters Zdeňka and Božena, ...