Today's Classical Corner... Smetana's celebration of Shakespeare!
The March for Shakespeare Festival is a work composed by Smetana and which was performed in 1864, as an accompaniment to a procession consisting of 200 characters referred to the work of the English author on the tercentenary of his birth.
Bedrich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride, for the symphonic cycle Má vlast ("My Fatherland") which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native land, and for his First String Quartet From My Life.
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