- Má vlast (My Homeland, JB 1:112) is a cycle of six symphonic poems which Smetana composed between 1872-79.1
- Smetana composed the first two tone poems of Má vlast (Vyšehrad and Vltava) in 1874.2
- Fun fact: the leitmotif Smetana uses to illustrate running water in The Moldau resembles Wagner’s leitmotif for the Rhine River in the Ring Cycle.3
Movements
- Vyšehrad (The High Castle)
- Vltava (The Moldau)
- Šárka
- Z českých luhů a hájů (From Bohemian Fields and Groves)
- Tábor
- Blaník 4
Sources
- “Má Vlast, JB 1:112 (Smetana, Bedřich),” IMSLP, accessed April 8, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/M%C3%A1_Vlast,_JB_1:112_(Smetana,_Bed%C5%99ich).
- Marta Ottlová, Milan Pospíšil, John Tyrrell, and Kelly St Pierre, “Smetana, Bedřich,” Grove Music Online (September 28, 2018), accessed April 8, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-3000000151.
- Ibid.
- “Má Vlast, JB 1:112 (Smetana, Bedřich),” IMSLP.
Cut IDs
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