Czech Republic

7 articles related to Czech Republic:

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   Marching Band

   Entrance of the Gladiators: military march by Julius Fučík found world fame as a screamer music for circuses

   Entrance of the Gladiators is one of the world's most famous marches which has cemented itself in public awareness by…

   February 26, 2020

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   Orchestra

   The many attempts of Romantic composers to adapt Shakuntala love story from Mahabharata epic

   The love story of Shakuntala is first mentioned in the oldest Sanskrit epic of the Mahābhārata which could be traced…

   July 17, 2019

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   Piano

   Beethoven's famous piano trio carried the genre to the Romantic era

   Compositions written for a group of three instruments where the leading piano is usually accompanied by a violin and…

   March 29, 20192 comments

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   Orchestra

   The vital source of Lutheran music by Andreas Hammerschmidt

   Andreas Hammerschmidt was a German composer and organist of Bohemian birth whose works played an important part in the…

   January 15, 2019

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   Orchestra

   Dvorak's string serenade is a mirror of his blissful years

   For Antonin Dvořák, 1875 was a grand time for both creative productivity and wholesome family life. The birth of his…

   June 9, 2018

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   Orchestra

   Vivaldi's Bohemian Concerto was the last gift for the dying lute

   Within Antonio Vivaldi's creative period, the lute was going out of fashion as the lead solo instrument, though its…

   March 17, 2018

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   Orchestra

   Walks along Moldau river ended in the greatest symphonic poem of all time

   Bedřich Smetana conceived a series of orchestral pieces based on the legends and landscapes of his homeland entitled Má…

   March 14, 2018