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Budding composer

In 1850, notwithstanding his revolutionary sentiments, Smetana
accepted the post of Court Pianist in Ferdinand's establishment in
Prague Castle.[26][31] He continued teaching in the Piano Institute,
and devoted himself increasingly to composition. His works, mainly for
the piano, included the three-part Wedding Scenes, some of the music
of which was later used in The Bartered Bride.[32] He also wrote
numerous short experimental pieces collected under the name Album
Leaves, and a series of polkas.[32] During 1853–54 he worked on a
major orchestral piece, the Triumphal Symphony, composed to
commemorate the wedding of Emperor Franz Josef.[28] The symphony was
rejected by the Imperial Court, possibly on the grounds that the brief
musical references to the Austrian national anthem were not
sufficiently prominent. Undeterred, Smetana hired an orchestra at his
own expense to perform the symphony at the Konvikt Hall in Prague on
26 February 1855. The work was coolly received, and the concert was a
financial failure.[33]
[edit] Private sorrows and professional disenchantment
An oil portrait of Smetana, 1854

In the years between 1854 and 1856 Smetana suffered a series of
personal blows. In July 1854 his second daughter, Gabriela, died of
tuberculosis. A year later his eldest daughter Bedřiška, who at the
age of four was showing signs of musical precocity, died of scarlet
fever.[34] Smetana wrote his Piano Trio in G minor as a tribute to her
memory; it was performed in Prague on 3 December 1855 and, according
to the composer, was received "harshly" by the critics, although Liszt
praised it.[5][35] Smetana's sorrows continued; just after Bedřiška's
death a fourth daughter, Kateřina, had been born but she, too, died in
June 1856. By this time Smetana's wife Kateřina had also been
diagnosed with tuberculosis.[34]

In July 1856, Smetana received news of the death in exile of his
revolutionary friend Karel Havlíček.[36] The political climate in
Prague was a further source of gloom; hopes of a more enlightened
government and social reform following Franz Josef's accession in 1848
had faded as Austrian absolutism reasserted itself under Baron
Alexander von Bach.[36] Despite the good name of the Piano Institute,
Smetana's status as a concert pianist was generally considered to be
below that of contemporaries such as Alexander Dreyschock.[36] Critics
acknowledged Smetana's "delicate, crystalline touch", closer in style
to Chopin than Liszt, but believed that his physical frailty was a
serious drawback to his concert-playing ambitions.[32] His main
performance success during this period was his playing of Mozart's D
minor Piano Concerto at a concert celebrating the centenary of
Mozart's birth, in January 1856.[36] His disenchantment with Prague
was growing and, perhaps influenced by Dreyschock's accounts of
opportunities to be found in Sweden, Smetana decided to seek success
there. On 11 October 1856, after writing to his parents that "Prague
did not wish to acknowledge me, so I left it", he departed for
Gothenburg.[37]
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