“They are in a light style, intended more for use in the home than for concert performance”. Thus Smetana described these two duets in which he memorialised his Bohemian homeland. It is a fact, though scarcely believable, that Smetana had by this time already been deaf for two years. The pieces were popular from the outset: Smetana was able to demand a high price for them, and even to play off several aspiring publishers against each other. The duets are not technically over-demanding, and attract by means of their joyful character and powerful melodies.
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Bedrich Smetana (1824–1884) had already been deaf for six years when he composed his two duets for violin and piano entitled Z domoviny (“From My Native Land”). Both pieces, which are assigned the number Berkovec 1:118 in Jirí Berkovec’s “Thematic Catalog of the Works of Bedrich Smetana” (Ms., 1999), were composed in 1880 at the suggestion of Prince Alexander, the … 계속
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Bedrich Smetana
His work is regarded as a realization of a Czech nationalist musical style. His oeuvre comprises eight operas, symphonic poems, a little chamber music, numerous piano compositions, several vocal works, and songs.
| 1824 | Born in Litomyšl on March 2, the son of a beer brewer. Already successful as a pianist during his high school years. |
| 1844 | Composition pupil of Josef Proksch in Prague. Music teacher to aristocratic families. |
| 1848 | Music school of his own. |
| 1854 | Completion of his only symphony, “Triumphal Symphony” in E major, Op. 6. |
| 1856–61 | Director of the Philharmonic Society in Gothenburg. |
| 1858 | Symphonic poem “Richard III” and “Wallenstein’s Camp” after Liszt’s example. |
| 1861 | Return to Prague, involvement in the emergent Czech culture, also as a critic. |
| 1866 | Music director at the Czech Interim Theater in Prague. Premiere of the operas “The Brandenburgers in Bohemia” and “The Bartered Bride,” the latter to great acclaim; it is his best-known work and regarded as a nationalist opera. |
| 1868 | Premiere of “Dalibor” as a serious nationalist opera. |
| 1869–72 | Composition of the opera “Libuše.” |
| 1874 | Successful premiere in Prague of the opera “The Two Widows.” Loss of hearing and thereby of his music director position. He nevertheless continues to compose. |
| 1872–79 | Cycle of six symphonic poems “Má vlast” (“My Homeland”) as his most well-known symphonic works, including “Vltava” (“The Moldau”) with passages of tone painting. |
| 1876 | Premiere in Prague of the popular opera “The Kiss.” String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, “From My Life.” |
| 1878 | Premiere of the comic opera “The Secret” and the festival opera “Libuše” (1881), which harkens back to a Czech saga. |
| 1884 | Death in Prague on May 12. |