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Zdeněk Fibich
12+ albums
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Zdeněk Fibich (December 21, 1850 – October 15, 1900) was a Czech composer of classical music, including chamber works (including two string quartets, a piano trio, piano quartet and a quintet for piano, strings and winds), symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas, the most famous probably The Bride of Messina; melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia, liturgical music including a mass - a missa brevis; and a large cycle (almost 400 pieces, from the 1890s) of piano works called Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences among other works. The piano cycle served as a diary of sorts of his love for a piano pupil. He was born in Vseborice (Seborice) near Caslav. That Fibich is far less known than either Dvorak or Smetana can explained by the fact that Fibich lived during rise of Czech nationalism within the Habsburg empire. And while Smetana and Dvorak gave themselves over entirely to the national cause consciously writing Czech music with which the emerging nation strongly identified, Fibich’s position was more ambivalent. That this was so was due to the background of his parents and to his education. Fibich’s father was a Czech forestry official and the composer’s early life was spent on various wooded estates of the nobleman for whom his father worked. His mother, however, was an ethnic German Viennese. Home schooled by his mother until the age of 9, he was first sent to a German speaking gymnasium in Vienna for 2 years before attending a Czech speaki
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Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences, Op. 41, Book 4: No. 14. Poem
8,6742Poem
1,6523Moods, Impressions and Souvenirs, Op. 41: IV. Poème
1,0924Poème for Violin and Piano, Op. 41 No. 4 (Arr. Weniger)
1,0155Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences, Op. 41, Book 4: No. 139 in D-Flat Major: Lento
9406Moods, Impressions & Souvenirs, Op. 41, Book 1: No. 36 in B-Flat Major: Andante amoroso
5607Fibich: Moods, Impressions and Souvenirs, Op. 41: No. 4, Poème (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Jan Kubelik)
4428Prolog k Otevreni Noveho Ceskeho Divadla (Prologue to the Opening of the New Czech Theatre)
3619Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences Op. 41: Poème (Grand Plie)
35910Moods, Impressions & Souvenirs, Op. 41, Book 1: No. 44 in B-Flat Major: Andante
278albums
Fibich: Orchestral Works
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Utwory Romantyczne
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ROMANTIC PIANO FAVOURITES, VOL. 1
Symphony No.2 (Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi)
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100 Must-Have Easy Listening Classics
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Zdeněk Fibich: Piano compositions
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Fibich, Zdeněk
Symphony No.3 (Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi)
Fibich: Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
Fibich: Symphony No. 2 - At Twilight - Idyll
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The Piano Album
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Fibich: Symphony No. 1 - Impressions from the Countryside