4 April: Bedřich Smetana's Vltava (The Moldau) Was Premiered

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On This Day
4 April: Bedřich Smetana’s Vltava (The Moldau) Was Premiered

https://interlude.hk/on-this-day-4-april-bedrich-smetana-vltava-the-moldau-was-premiered/?fbclid=IwAR089TKiKty6rVkkw1KmgxBgcfWj6VHVA1zktGldujE7AzTLbeejv3B2HXs

Smetana had actually composed the work after losing his hearing completely. He had noticed substantial hearing loss in 1874, and he informed the Provisional Theatre’s management of his situation. “It was in July… that I noticed that in one of my ears the notes in the higher octaves were pitched differently than in the other and that at times I had a tingling feeling in my ears and heard a noise as though I was standing by a mighty waterfall.

Makes me cry! (Want this played @ my 'funeral,' as I live beside a river.)

Heard/saw it played in Prague.

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1. A favorite of mine; I sent a CD to everyone in my family one Christmas. It speaks to my Teutonic

roots.

I can just imagine the experience of seeing it played in Prague.

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2. Was great, and a great surprise to see it played there.

Prolly no Teutonic roots here, more like slavic, but it really gets me, and moreso since I've lived beside a river.