Smetana: Chamber Works

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Explore the complete catalog of Chamber compositions by Smetana. This curated list includes composition years, historical Wikipedia context, and interactive audio to add specific tracks directly to your listening queue.

Title Year Actions
Piano Trio in G minor, op. 15

The Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15, for piano, violin, and cello, was written in 1855 by Bedřich Smetana initially as his Opus 9. Following some revision, he had finished and premiered the revised work in Sweden in 1858. The work was then officially published in 1880. This piece was dedicated to the memory of his eldest daughter, Bedřiška. This work features paraphrases and quotations of his previous Piano Sonata in G minor JB 3:24 (1846). This work takes approximately 28–32 minutes to perform.

String Quartet no. 1 in E minor,, JB 1:105, "From My Life"

String Quartet No. 1 ("From My Life", Czech: "Z mého života") in E minor, written in 1876, is a four-movement chamber composition by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. It is an autobiographical work with nationalistic elements and was published in 1880 by František Augustin Urbánek in Prague. It was given a private premiere in 1878 in Prague, with Antonín Dvořák as violist, and its public premiere took place on 29 March 1879, performed by Ferdinand Lachner, Jan Pelikán, Josef Krehan and Alois Neruda. Smetana was a complex figure in his time, straddling his Austro-Hungarian upbringing coupled with his ethnic Czech background. His first quartet encompasses the politics and culture that resulted from that upbringing.

String Quartet no. 2 in D minor, JB 1:124

Bedřich Smetana's String Quartet No. 2 in D minor is a chamber composition for string quartet. It is Smetana's second and final quartet, written between 1882 and 1883.

Z domoviny, 2 pieces for violin and piano, JB 1:118

Below is a List of compositions by Bedřich Smetana sorted by genre, catalogue numbers, original and English titles. JB numbers are from Tematický katalog skladeb Bedřicha Smetany (Thematic Catalogue of Works by Bedřich Smetana) by Jiří Berkovec (Prague, 1999). B. numbers are from the catalogue by František Bartoš. T. numbers are from the 1893 catalogue by Karel Teige.