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\n \n About work:

I began with a few characteristic sketches, small studies of sorts designed for a string quartet. Later I was searching for a unifying idea with which I could give these mood sketches a credible programmatic subtext. In a certain phase two or three little poems came up, which corresponded amusingly with the play of notes in the four staves. And finally, these were followed by a sequence of seven musical \"pictures from the right bank of the Danube.\" As a Bratislava resident who has lived in Petržalka for over thirty years, it seemed interesting to me from a marketing angle and also appropriate to finally pay homage to this \"city within the city\". In the case of Petržalka, though, it was possible to rely on generally experienced cultural milestones or architectural dominants only with considerable ingenuity, or with a certain amount of tolerant humour (for example, using a citation of Cikker's theme tune for Banská Bystrica radio as a symbol of the Bystrica Cafe on top of the SNP Bridge). There's a touch of irony too behind the manifest inspiration from Smetana, which ultimately is expressed in the overall title of the work. The parallel with the works of Bedřich Smetana (who otherwise I deeply admire, and that's without any irony) was decisive also in the work being designated as a string quartet, though in my case it's more of a free programmatic cycle. While writing the music it was important that I knew there was an exceptionally high-quality young chamber formation on the Slovak music scene (Mucha Quartet), where some of the musicians were people I knew and had a good understanding with. I tried to write something for them which apart from being strenuous artistic work would be somewhat entertaining also. The dedication of the work to Juraj Tomka is thus a logical completion of the tendencies already mentioned.


\n (author, in: Bulletin Melos-Ethos 2015, p. 27.)
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\n Movements:
\n\n Secrets of Technopol (forever consigned to silence)\n \n
\n\n SNP Bridge (and the UFO-nians in Café Bystrica)\n \n
\n\n Swans (boredom at Draždiak)\n \n
\n\n The Hospital (on the verge of collapse)\n \n
\n\n Janko Kráľ Park (an illusion by the Aupark)\n \n
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First performance in Slovakia

\n \n \n 08.11.2015,\n Melos-Ethos,\n Small Concert Hall of the Slovak Philharmonic,\n Bratislava,\n SK\n\n
Performers: Mucha Quartet\n
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