Programme . sa moved Smetanato write Libussa, a festival opera in three acts. Libussa is also the heroine of operas by von Lannoy (Brtinn, 1818);Konradin Kreutzer (Vienna, 1822); Denzi, Praga, Nascente daLibussa e Primislao (Prague, 1734); Albonini, Primislao, Primo Redi Boemia (Venice, 1698); Bernardi (Prague, 1703). An asteroid isnamed after her. Libussa, a festival opera in three acts, libretto by Josef Wenzig,music by Smetana, was produced at Prague on June 11, 1881, but theopera was completed in the year 1872. As Bronislav Wellek says:Smetana wrote it for a future audience. The score of t
Programme . sa moved Smetanato write Libussa, a festival opera in three acts. Libussa is also the heroine of operas by von Lannoy (Brtinn, 1818);Konradin Kreutzer (Vienna, 1822); Denzi, Praga, Nascente daLibussa e Primislao (Prague, 1734); Albonini, Primislao, Primo Redi Boemia (Venice, 1698); Bernardi (Prague, 1703). An asteroid isnamed after her. Libussa, a festival opera in three acts, libretto by Josef Wenzig,music by Smetana, was produced at Prague on June 11, 1881, but theopera was completed in the year 1872. As Bronislav Wellek says:Smetana wrote it for a future audience. The score of the overturewas published in 1875, and it was played in concerts. A four-handedarrangement of the overture was also published. Only intimatefriends were allowed to see the score of the opera itself. In the year1880 a prize of one thousand guldens was offered for the best seriousopera by the Society for the Building of a Czech National Theatre, andSmetana took the prize with his Libussa. The opera was produced. LISZT TWO LECTURE RECITALS L WiLk Liszt: in Weimar Piano Compositions by LisztWith personal reminiscences A Program of Piano Compositions by Mozart,° Schumann, Chopin, and Liszt, with interpretative analyses JOHN ORTH Concert Pianist and Teacher of PianoSTEINERT HALL at the dedication of the theatre. The deaf composer sat in the directorsbox and could not hear a note. The story of the Princess Libussa also moved Smetana to composean orchestral piece about 1870, entitled The Judgment of Libussa,to accompany a tableau vivant. The symphonic Vysehrad poem is in free form. It begins Lento,E-flat, 3-4. Lumir plays the chief theme, the Vysehrad motive, ashort theme for the second harp. After the announcement of thistheme and after harp preluding, a Largo maestoso opens solemnly(horns and bassoons). The Vysehrad motive is the foundation. Thetrumpets call, and an exceedingly simple theme, a disintegration of thechord of B-flat, is given to wind instruments. The chief theme appears
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