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52-19 I am the creator of this genre in music, especially in Czech. I will not leave my work, the only important in our literature, to dig up in the company of high-profile songs . . . 1002 good and rism! is fair 4./12. 1 R vladla in .. What fell, for the first dramatic singers. Both roles are dramatically, but not tragically; there is no need for people to go crazy or die to be dramatic. © As with Agatha, Amina, Alice, Pamina etc., they count among the roles of the first drama singers, and indeed they are provo- viva-- so I also ask and deliberately compose both Ma-Rana and Vendulka for the first dramatic singers. It is not my fault... 30/11. 1877. Bedřich Smetana. If criticism is required by an artist, or by a fine expert, it has the right of artificial data from a critic the same. E. F. Burian 267