This composer wrote his only piano trio after the death of his four- year-old daughter.
This composer wrote his only piano trio after the death of his four- year-old daughter. Arnold Schoenberg is reported to have said that this composer's second and final string quartet "opened the world", and this composer said that that work "represents the turbulence of music in a person who had lost his hearing". He also wrote a series of six symphonic poems starting with Vyšehrad [VIH-sheh-raht], or The High Castle, and including From Bohemia's Fields and Groves. His first string quartet, which premiered with Antonín Dvořák [d'-VAWR-zhahk] on viola, contains polkas in its second movement and is known as From My Life. Name this Czech whose six-song cycle Má vlast includes "Die Moldau", and who composed the opera The Bartered Bride.
This composer wrote his only piano trio after the death of his four- year-old daughter.
Bedřich Smetana