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String Quartet No. 1 (''"From My Life"'', (チェコ語:"Z mého života")) in E minor, written in 1876, is a four-movement Romantic chamber composition by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. == Background == After becoming deaf, Smetana moved in 1876 from Prague to Jabkenice. He still hoped that the handicap would not be permanent. In the autumn of that year, he began to compose a new work. It was to be his intimate confession, a work depicting the course of his life, ''"... using four instruments speaking among themselves in something like a friendly circle"''.〔Score, p. VII〕 He completed the composition on 29 December 1876. In a letter to his friend Josef Srba, Smetana formulated the work's ideological conception and the features of the individual movements. It was given a private premiere in 1878 in Prague, with Antonín Dvořák as violist,〔Berger, Melvin. ''Guide to Chamber Music'', p 428-430 Mineola, NY: Dover Publications (2001). ISBN 0-486-41879-0.〕 and its public premiere took place on 29 March 1879, performed by Ferdinand Lachner, Jan Pelikán, Josef Krehan and Alois Neruda.〔 The work is semi-autobiographical and consists of sketches of periods from Smetana's life, as is suggested by its subtitle Z mého života ("From My Life"). Its notable features include a prominent viola solo at the very beginning of the first movement, and a high, sustained harmonic E on the first violin in the last movement, which represents the ringing in his ears that presaged Smetana's deafness, although the actual ringing was a chord in A-flat major. The work was published in 1880 by Fr. Urbánek in Prague. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「String Quartet No. 1 (Smetana)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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