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Anton Bruckner isn’t the only composer whose 200th birthday is being celebrated in 2024. He shares that milestone with Bedřich Smetana, whose six symphonic poems published as the cycle Má vlast put his Czech homeland (the meaning of the title) on Europe’s musical map. Smetana tells of the great history of his people in these works, depicting their legends and myths, as well as the dreamlike Czech landscape. The most-famous part is the unforgettable Vltava, whose main theme evokes the flowing river, but Smetana also brings the beauties of Bohemia’s fields and forests to life and escorts us up the hill to Prague’s Vyšehrad Castle. In the process, he fuses folk music, including such dances as the polka, with an advanced musical language à la Liszt and Wagner. Through this cycle, Smetana emancipated Czech music and debunked disparaging biases against it. No wonder that the “Prague Spring,” the country’s best-known music festival, opens every year with Má vlast. In this anniversary year, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko have the honor of taking on the task and will subsequently present their interpretation in Lucerne in the summer.
