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Smetana - String Quartet No 2 in D minor
Identifier
025224
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Smetana’s second String Quartet, in D minor, written in 1882–83 in defiance of his doctor's orders to refrain from all musical activity, was composed in short snatches, "a swirl of music of a person who has lost his hearing."
It represents Smetana's frustrations with his life, but is not wholly gloomy, and includes a bright polka.
It was one of his final compositions; between the two quartets he wrote a violin and piano duet From the homeland, a mixture of melancholy and happiness with strong affinity to Czech folk material.
A description of the experience
The Smetana Quartet: Bedrich Smetana, String Quartet N.2 in D minor
Violin I Jiří Novák
Violin II Lubomír Kostecký
Viola Milan Škampa
Cello Antonín Kohout
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