* Bedřich Smetana – String Quartet in E minor (" From my Life ")

96 " American ;" Smetana: Quartet No. 1 in E " From My Life.

96 " American "; Smetana: Quartet No. 1 in E, " From My Life.

He co-founded the Smetana Quartet playing 1st violin and then viola before holding conducting posts in Karlovy Vary and Brno.

* The Primrose Quartet CD ( Biddulph Recordings LAB052-53 ) reissue of the 1940-1941 78 rpm recordings, with Josef Gingold, William Primrose, Harvey Shapiro, Oscar Shumsky, and Jesus Maria Sanroma of Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra, performing works of Haydn, Schumann, Brahms, Smetana, and Tchaikovsky.

: Smetana Quartet, Supraphon

The Smetana Quartet () was a Czech string quartet that was in existence from 1945 to 1989.

The Smetana Quartet arose from the Quartet of the Czech Conservatory, which was founded in 1943 ( during the Nazi occupation ) in Prague by Antonin Kohout, the cellist.

With J. Rybensky and L. Kostecky as first and second violins, and Václav Neumann as violist, the group gave its first perfirmance as the Smetana Quartet in November 1945, in Prague.

* Jirǐ Berkovec, The Smetana Quartet ( Orbis 1956 )

In January 1965 the group spent twelve days recording Dvořák ’ s “ American ” Quartet and Smetana ’ s Quartet “ From My Life ”.

* Smetana: Quartet no.

* Smetana: Quartet no.

They participated in masterclasses with such artists as, among others, the musicians of the LaSalle Quartet, Amadeus, Juilliard, Smetana and Alban Berg string quartets.

Due to Steinberg's illness, DG recorded the BSO with Rafael Kubelik in Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Ma Vlast by Bedrich Smetana and in Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra as well as with Eugen Jochum conducting Symphony No. 41 by Wolfgang Mozart and Franz Schubert's Symphony 8.

Since 1952, the festival has opened on 12 May — the anniversary of the death of Bedřich Smetana — with his cycle of symphonic poems Má vlast ( My Country ), and it used to close ( until 2003 ) with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.

In the last concert of the previous season, they performed Roman Carnival Overture by Berlioz, The Moldau by Bedrich Smetana, a movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2, a movement of Wieniawsky's Violin Concerto # 2, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4.

Nationalist composers emerged in Central Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain and Britain: the music of Dvorak, Smetana, Grieg, Rimsky-Korsakov, Brahms, Liszt, de Falla, Wagner, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, Bartók and many others drew upon folk melodies.

* 1884 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer ( b. 1824 )

* 1824 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer ( d. 1884 )

Czech composers also developed a thriving national opera movement of their own in the 19th century, starting with Bedřich Smetana, who wrote eight operas including the internationally popular The Bartered Bride.

Another Czech composer, Bedřich Smetana, included a significant viola part in his quartet " From My Life ": the quartet begins with an impassioned statement by the viola.

* May 12 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer ( b. 1824 )

* March 2 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer ( d. 1885 )

Bedřich Smetana incorporated the polka in his opera The Bartered Bride () and in particular, Act 1.

* Vyšehrad cemetery, Prague-the Czech Republic's most important cemetery, it is the burial site for Antonín Dvořák, Alfons Mucha and Bedřich Smetana, amongst others.

Bedřich Smetana (; 2 March 1824 – 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.

Smetana was naturally gifted as a pianist, and gave his first public performance at the age of six.

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.

In that same year, Smetana became the theatre's principal conductor, but the years of his conductorship were marked by controversy.

By the end of 1874, Smetana had become completely deaf but, freed from his theatre duties and the related controversies, he began a period of sustained composition that continued for almost the rest of his life.

Bedřich Smetana was born as Friedrich Smetana on 2 March 1824, in Litomyšl, east of Prague near the traditional border between Bohemia and Moravia, then provinces of the Habsburg Empire.

He was the third child, and first son, of František Smetana and his third wife Barbora Lynková.

The Smetana family came from the Hradec Králové region of Bohemia.

The elder Smetana, although uneducated, had a natural gift for music and was a competent violinist who played in a string quartet.

Here, Smetana attended the local elementary school and later the gymnasium.

There being no suitable local school, Smetana was sent to the gymnasium at Jihlava, where he was homesick and unable to study.

Smetana arrived in Prague in the autumn of 1839.

Finding Jungmann's school uncongenial ( he was mocked by his classmates for his country manners ), Smetana soon began missing classes.

After Liszt gave a series of piano recitals in the city, Smetana became convinced that he would find satisfaction only in a musical career.