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John Schaefer: I'm John Schaefer, and you're listening to the Artist Propulsion Lab podcast. Today, flute-player Emi Ferguson continues "This Composer is Sick," exploring the impact of syphilis on ...

Czech composer Bedřich Smetana titled his String Quartet No. 1 “From My Life” as its four movements are autobiographical chapters of his life and loves up to age 52 when he composed the work in 1876.

The casual classical music fan might not be well acquainted with the work of Bedřich Smetana. The St. Michael Trio hopes to enlighten audiences about the Czech composer at a March 31 concert at ...

Golub Kaplan Carr Trio (Arabesque). It was inspired programming to couple these two piano trios on disc, the only chamber music in this medium written by either composer and both works inspired by the ...

Today’s Google Doodle makes for some pretty satisfying Saturday morning listening, and features the music of Bedřich Smetana. The Czech composer is being honoured in the Doodle as today would have ...

Think of opera, and it’ll be the big names that come to mind — Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Mozart. Beyond those, though, there is a veritable host of composers. The New Penguin Opera Guide, which is as ...

‘With God’s help and grace, I will be a Mozart in composition and a Liszt in technique,’ Smetana wrote ambitiously in his diary in 1843. Czechoslovakia as such did not exist in Smetana’s day. The ...

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Well-known Czech composers Antonin Dvorak and Bedrich Smetana often get the credit for defining the sound of Czech music. After Dvorak and Smetana, another Czech composer carried the torch, Joseph ...

The great Czech composer Bedřich Smetana would have been 195 today, and the birthday has been marked by a beautiful Google Doodle, set to the music of his Vltava. The piece is one of the six symphonic ...