The Bartered Bride as "a tour de force of the genre, wonderfully spirited & wonderfully crafted." Tyrrell draws attention to several of its striking features – its extended string fugato, climactic tutti and prominent syncopations. The overture does not contain many of the opera's later themes: biographer Brian Large compares it to Mozart's overtures to "The Marriage of Figaro" and "The Magic Flute", in establishing a general mood. It is followed immediately by an extended orchestral prelude, for which Smetana adapted part of his 1849 piano work "Wedding Scenes", adding special effects such as bagpipe imitations. Schonberg has suggested that Bohemian composers express
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