'Gala Concert from Prague' is a recording by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Václav Neumann.
It features works by Smetana, Dvořák, Janáček, Fibich, Martinů and several other well known composers.
Oscar Nedbal was a Czech composer, conductor and violinist (1874-1930).
Unhappily, because of mounting personal debts, Nedbal committed suicide by jumping out of a window of the Zagreb Opera House on 24 December, 1930.
In recent years, Nedbal's haunting Valse Triste featured in his ballet Der Faule Hans (The Tale of Simple Johnny) has been a favourite stand-alone encore piece of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
The waltz is also played on the piano at a key moment by one of the characters in Heimito von Doderer's novel of the inter-war years in Vienna, The Demons (Die Dämonen) (1956).
This Supraphon recording is from 1991.

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