Bohuslav Martinů (Composer)
Born: 8th December 1890, Policka
Died: 28th August 1959, Liestal
Nationality: Czech
Bohuslav Jan Martinů was a Czech composer of modern classical music. He wrote 6 symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. He became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and briefly studied under Czech composer and violinist Josef Suk. After leaving Czechoslovakia in 1923 for Paris, Martinů deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained. During the 1920s he experimented with modern French stylistic developments, exemplified by his orchestral works Half-time and La Bagarre.
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Further Reading: Martinů
Recording of the Week,
Jiří Bělohlávek conducts Martinů's What Men Live By
The world premiere recording of a 1952 'pastoral opera' based on Tolstoy, captured three years before the Czech conductor's death in 2017.
Interview,
Manfred Honeck on The Epic of Gilgamesh
The conductor talks to Katherine about making the first English-language recording of Martinů's Babylonian epic.
Popular Genres: Martinů
Orchestral
Chamber
Instrumental
Choral
Concertos
Popular Works: Martinů
- Cello Concerto No. 1, H.196 (13)
- Concertino for Cello, Winds, Percussion & Piano in C minor, H. 143 (8)
- Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra (15)
- Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2, H. 293 (14)
- Double Concerto for Strings, Piano & Timpani, H. 271 (9)
- Duo for Violin and Cello No. 1, H. 157 (15)
- Duo for Violin and Cello No. 2, H. 371 (8)
- La Revue de Cuisine (8)
- Les Fresques de Piero della Francesca, H. 352 (10)
- Memorial to Lidice, H. 296 (11)
- Nonet for wind quintet, violin, viola, cello & double bass, H. 374 (8)
- Piano Concerto No. 4, H358 'Incantation' (9)
- Piano Quartet No. 1, H. 287 (10)
- Piano Sonata No. 1 (7)
- Piano Trio No. 1 'Cinq pièces brèves', H. 193 (8)
- Piano Trio No. 2 in D minor, H327 (8)
- Piano Trio No. 3 in C major, H332 (8)
- Rhapsody-Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (16)
- Serenade No. 2 for Two Violins & Viola, H. 216 (8)
- Sextet for Piano and Wind Instruments, H. 174 (10)
- Sonata for Cello & Piano No. 1, H. 277 (24)
- Sonata for Cello & Piano No. 2, H. 286 (24)
- Sonata for Cello & Piano No. 3, H. 340 (20)
- Sonata for Flute & Piano, H. 306 (31)
- Sonata for Viola & Piano, H. 355 (10)
- Sonata for Violin & Piano No. 3, H. 303 (8)
- Sonatas for Cello & Piano Nos. 1-3 (8)
- Sonatina for Clarinet & Piano, H. 356 (17)
- String Sextet, H. 224 (8)
- String Trio No. 2, H. 238 (7)
- Symphony No. 1, H. 289 (14)
- Symphony No. 2, H. 295 (9)
- Symphony No. 3, H. 299 (10)
- Symphony No. 4, H. 305 (22)
- Symphony No. 5, H. 310 (15)
- Symphony No. 6 'Fantaises symphoniques', H. 343 (15)
- Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola (Duo No. 1), H. 313 (14)
- Trio for Flute, Cello & Piano, H. 300 (14)
- Variations on a Slovak folksong for Cello & Piano, H. 378 (22)
- Variations on a Theme of Rossini (29)
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