Bedřich Smetana

Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884) was a Czech composer regarded as the father of Czech national music. He wrote the cycle of symphonic poems Má vlast (My Homeland) after he had gone completely deaf; its second part, Vltava, follows the river from two mountain springs through Bohemia to Prague. The recording here was made for Musopen and released into the public domain.

Genres: classical, orchestral