Bedřich Smetana (March 1824 - May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his countrys aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music
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Franz Liszt (October 1811 – July 1886) was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher. Liszt became renowned throughout Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He contributed significantly to the modern development of the art.
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A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music in a single continuous section in which the content of a poem, a story or novel, a painting, a landscape or another (non-musical) source is illustrated or evoked. The term was first applied by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. In its aesthetic objectives, the symphonic poem is in some ways related to opera; whilst it does not use a sung text, it seeks, like opera, a union of music and drama.
Bedřich Smetana visited Liszt in Weimar in the summer of 1857, where he heard the first performances of the Faust Symphony and the symphonic poem Die Ideale. Influenced by Liszts efforts, Smetana began a series of symphonic works based on literary subjects. Smetanas set of six symphonic poems published under the general title of Má vlast became his greatest achievements in the genre. Composed between 1872 and 1879, the cycle embodies its composers personal belief in the greatness of the Czech nation while presenting selected episodes and ideas from Czech history.
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This app presents 15 musical puzzles. It chalanges the operator to identify the composer of the playing music – symphonic poem - by choosing between Smetana or Liszt.
The app offers more than two and a half hours of genius music.