'Die Moldau' from Smetana's MaVlast ("My country/homeland") is a set of six symphonic poems composed between 1874 and 1879 by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. In these works Smetana combined the symphonic poem form pioneered by Franz Liszt with the ideals of nationalistic music which were current in the late nineteenth century. Each poem depicts some aspect of the countryside, history, or legends of Bohemia.
