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Miroslav Chakaryan (violin), Carel Henn (cello), Rudolf Geldenhuis (piano)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Smetana composed the G minor trio in 1855, shortly after the tragic death of his beloved daughter, Bedri\u0161ka. It is an autobiographical work dedicated to Bedri\u0161ka: \u201cIn memory of our eldest child, Bedri\u0161ka, whose rare musical talent gave us such delight; too early snatched from us by death.\u201d The Trio was also Smetana\u2019s first real success as a composer.\u00a0

The three movements of the trio are all in G minor, and the entire work is dominated by minor keys and falling intervals, suggesting sighs of sorrow. The second movement, a Scherzo with two trios, is like a portrait of the child and the woman she would have become. The final movement includes a funeral march punctuated by tolling bells on the piano.

Beethoven\u2019s Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1, was nicknamed the Ghost by the composer\u2019s most famous student, Carl Czerny. Early sketches of the second movement were found in Beethoven\u2019s notebook at a time when the troubled composer was attempting to create an opera on Shakespeare\u2019s Macbeth.\u00a0

The two shorter outside movements give the trio an arched shape – two more traditional and lucid movements with a black hole of despair in the middle. It is important to note that Beethoven was in Heiligenstadt on doctor\u2019s orders for his emerging deafness when he composed the Opus 70 trios. The six-month stay in Heiligenstadt resulted in the famous Heiligenstadt Testament – a letter to his brothers admitting the severity of his hearing loss.
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