This composer dedicated his piano piece "Faded Happiness," the first of his six Reves, to a former student in the Thun family.
This composer dedicated his piano piece "Faded Happiness," the first of his six Reves, to a former student in the Thun family. In the second movement of this composer's first string quartet, the viola is instructed to play a polka like a trumpet. He composed the concert etude On the Seashore, and wrote his Piano Concerto in G Minor to mourn the death of his daughter Bedriska. This composer wrote a string quartet in which a violin plays a long harmonic E after the rest of the quartet suddenly stops and plays a low tremolo in a section representing his loss of hearing. His symphonic poems include Sarka, as well as a piece which begins with two flutes representing streams that converge to the namesake river. For 10 points, name this Czech composer of the string quartet "From My Life," who included his symphonic poems "Vysehrad" and "The Moldau" in Ma Vlast.
This composer dedicated his piano piece "Faded Happiness," the first of his six Reves, to a former student in the Thun family.
Bedrich Smetana