Smetana - moldau river - Classical Loop - 5MB - 0.28 - Vltava also known by its German name Die Moldau (or The Moldau) is from a set of six symphonic poems called Má vlast (My Fatherland). In this piece, Smetana uses tone painting to evoke the sounds of the Vltava (Moldau), the longest river in the Czech Republic.