Released on: 2022-03-20
Die Moldau â Smetanas Welterfolg
The story of the birth of BedĆich Smetana's most famous composition, from his first impressions of his stay in Ć umava through the images of the Czech landscape through which the Vltava River flows, is told by Jakub HrĆŻĆĄa, chief conductor of the famous German orchestra, in Axel Fuhrmann's documentary film... The Czech composer BedĆich Smetana captured the "sound of the river's springs" as early as 1867 during his stay in Ć umava. However, he did not compose "Vltava" until seven years later, when he was already completely deaf. For the individual movements of his world-famous symphonic poem he used various motifs, including the sound of the now extinct SvĂ€tojĂĄnskĂ© streams near Ć tÄchovice. One of the main melodies is said to be taken from the Czech folk song KoÄka leze hole, which Smetana transposed into the minor key...
