Instrumentation: piccolo flute, flutes (2), oboes (2), clarinets (2), bassoons (2), horns (4), trumpets (2), trombones (3), tuba, timpani, triangle, cymbals, violins (2), viola, cellos (2), double bass

Composed in January–February 1875, Šárka is the third symphonic poem in Smetana’s six-part cycle Má vlast (My Fatherland). He first published it in a version for piano-duet issued by publisher Urbánek in 1880. The score of the first edition did not appear in print until 1888, four years after S...