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Smetana's concert tour to Western Bohemia was poorly supported, so he abandoned it and returned to Prague, where he made a living from private pupils and occasional appearances as an accompanist in chamber concerts.
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Despite the good name of the Piano Institute, Smetana's status as a concert pianist was generally considered to be below that of contemporaries such as Alexander Dreyschock.
A gala concert and banquet was arranged to honour Smetana's 60th birthday in March 1884, but he was too ill to attend.
In 1996, the LCP was invited to open the Prague Spring Festival in the traditional opening festival concert of Bedrich Smetana's Ma Vlast, a controversial decision at the time.
Smetana's and Bohemia
The best-known of the classical Czech composer Bedřich Smetana's set of six symphonic poems Má vlast (" My Motherland ") is called Vltava ( or The Moldau ), and is a musical depiction of the river's course through Bohemia.
Count Waldstein's castle in Smetana's birthplace, Litomyšl, Bohemia
Smetana's first noteworthy public success was his initial opera The Brandenburgers in Bohemia, in 1866 when he was already 42 years old.
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Among the friends he made here was the future Czech revolutionary poet Karel Havlíček, whose departure for Prague in 1838 may have influenced Smetana's own desire to experience life in the capital.
In the climate of political change and upheaval that swept through Europe in that year, a pro-democracy movement in Prague led by Smetana's old friend Karel Havlíček was urging an end to Habsburg absolutist rule and for more political autonomy.
Critics acknowledged Smetana's " delicate, crystalline touch ", closer in style to Chopin than Liszt, but believed that his physical frailty was a serious drawback to his concert-playing ambitions.
Liszt was Smetana's principal teacher throughout the latter's creative life, and at this time was crucially able to revive his spirits and rescue him from the relative artistic isolation of Gothenburg.
At this stage in his career, Smetana's command of the Czech language was poor.
The opera was to go through several revisions and restructures before reaching the definitive three-act form that in due course established Smetana's international reputation.
That same evening Smetana's third opera, Dalibor, was premièred at Prague's New Town Theatre.
Formerly a supporter of Smetana's, Pivoda was aggrieved when the conductor recruited singing talent from abroad rather than from Pivoda's school.
Strong support from vice-chairman Antonín Čísek, and an ultimatum from prominent musicians among whom was Antonín Dvořák, ensured Smetana's survival.
This status was celebrated by several events during Smetana's final years.
However, Smetana's family believed that his physical and mental decline was due to syphilis.
It was dedicated to former pupils of Smetana's, who had raised funds to cover medical expenses, and is also a tribute to the composer's models of the 1840s — Schumann, Chopin and Liszt.
Smetana's librettist for " The Kiss " was the young feminist Eliška Krásnohorská, who also supplied the texts for his final two operas.
Progressive rock groups and musicians during the 1970s in particular experimented with program music, among which was Rush's " Jacob's Ladder " ( 1980 ), which shows clear influences of Smetana's Má vlast (" My Homeland ") ( 1874-1879 ).
One particular recording session he remembers is when he was present one evening when Wilhelm Furtwängler recorded Schumann's Manfred Overture and Smetana's Moldau at the Musikverein in Vienna.
This opera, Smetana's second, was part of his quest to create a truly Czech operatic genre.
Liszt was Smetana's long-time mentor ; he had accepted a dedication of the latter's Opus 1: Six Characteristic Pieces for Piano in 1848, and had encouraged the younger composer's career since then.
According to Smetana's biographer Brian Large, this process was prolonged and untidy ; the manuscript shows amendments and additions in Smetana's own hand, and some pages apparently written by Smetana's wife Bettina ( who may have been receiving dictation ).
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Prague Conservatoire ( modern photograph ): Smetana's bid to become its director failed.
That year, Smetana's bid to become Director of the Prague Conservatory failed.
Smetana's gravestone at the Vyšehrad Cemetery, Prague
A permanent memorial to Smetana's life and work is the Smetana Museum in Prague, originally founded in 1926 within the Charles University's Institute for Musicology.
Its Vltava ( or " The Moldau " in German ) movement, depicting the river that runs through Prague towards its junction with the Elbe, is Smetana's best-known and most internationally popular orchestral composition.
* May 30-Bedřich Smetana's opera Prodana Nevesta ( The Bartered Bride ) debuts in Prague at the Provisional Theater
In the years after his return to Prague in 1874, Fibich's music encountered severely negative reactions in the Prague musical community, stemming from his ( and Smetana's ) adherence to Richard Wagner's theories on opera.
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Smetana's reputation as the founding father of Czech music has endured in his native country, where advocates have raised his status above that of his contemporaries and successors.
Smetana's visit to Liszt at Weimar in the summer of 1857, where he heard the latter's Faust Symphony and Die Ideale, caused a material reorientation of Smetana's orchestral music.
In 1952 he responded to the call of Ferenc Fricsay and joined him at the Deutsche Oper Berlin where he sang the tenor parts in all Mozart operas, in Rossini's The Barber of Seville and Le comte Ory, in Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina, the part of Hans in Smetana's The Bartered Bride, as well as many other tenor parts.
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This spirit is celebrated in Smetana's " Song of Freedom ", made famous in the English-speaking world by Paul Robeson's recording in Czech and English.
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Rieger led a campaign to eject Smetana from the conductorship and reappoint Maýr, and in December 1872 a petition signed by 86 subscribers to the theatre called for Smetana's resignation.
Tests carried out by Prof. Emanuel Vlček in the late 20th century on samples of muscular tissue from Smetana's exhumed body provided further evidence of the disease.
After Smetana's final return from Gothenburg, when he committed himself primarily to the development of Czech opera, he wrote nothing for the piano for 13 years.
Smetana's choral music is generally nationalistic in character, ranging in scale from the short Ceremonial Chorus written after the death of the composer's revolutionary friend Havlíček, to the setting of Song of the Sea, a substantial work with the character of a choral drama.
* Bedřich Smetana's Album Leaf No. 3 from Six Album Leaves Op.
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Smetana's performances in these concerts became a recognised feature of Prague's musical life.
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