ExclusiveSmetana: Má vlast - Vltava (my homeland)

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Bedřich Smetana: Má vlast - Vltava. This beautiful piece was played by Musopen Symphony. It has Creative Commons license (PDM 1.0 DEED, Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

Bedřich Smetana's Má vlast (My Homeland) is a set of six symphonic poems composed by Smetana and later performed as a single work in Prague in 1882.The author combined the ideals of nationalist music with the symphonic poem form coined by Liszt, resulting in a highly idiosyncratic music. Each of Má vlast's poems depicts an aspect of Bohemian culture. This particular piece, Vltava (or Die Vltava as it is known in German), was composed in 1874 and premiered the following year by Adolf Čech. In its twelve-minute duration, Smetana uses tone painting to evoke the sounds of one of Bohemia's rivers. The piece also contains his most famous melody, an adaptation of La Mantovana, a song attributed to the tenor Giuseppe Cenci - and also the basis for the Israeli national anthem. - Source: Musopen.org

The water was filmed by Simone Schlegel and the video edited by Wenjing Ma.

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