Vltava, also known by its English title The Moldau, is the most well known part of Má vlast ( My Fatherland) a set of the six symphonic poems composed between 1874 and 1879 by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana

The composition describes the course of the Vltava

Vltava contains Smetana's most famous tune. It is an adaptation of the melody La Mantovana, attributed to the Italian Renaissance tenor Giuseppe Cenci