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Bohuslav Martinů
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Bohuslav Martinů (8 December 1890, Polička – 28 August 1959, Liestahl) was a Czech composer of modern classical music. He was very prolific, writing almost 400 pieces, among them 6 symphonies, choral works, operas, concertos, including for cello, violin, oboe and five for the piano and his chamber music, including seven string quartets. His artistic history content more creative periods, incl. postimpresionism, neo-classicism, expressionism etc. Biography: Bohuslav Martinů was born in a bell-tower where his father, a shoemaker by trade, was a watchman. Even as a child, he developed a reputation locally, and he gave his first public concert in his hometown in 1905. In 1906 Martinů became a violin student at the Prague Conservatory. He studied briefly there (before being dismissed for “incorrigible negligence”) and later continued to study on his own. He spent the First World War in his hometown as a teacher, where he pursued his interests in composition. He also joined the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra as a violinist. His ballet Istar was completed in 1922. He left Czechoslovakia for Paris in 1923, where he became a pupil of Albert Roussel, though he retained many links with his birthplace. When the German army approached Paris early in the Second World War, he fled, first to the south of France, and then to the United States in 1941, where he settled in New York with his French wife. In later life he lived in Switzerland, never returning to his homeland. Martinů’s music d
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Etudes and Polkas, Vol. 2 - No. 3. Dance - Etude
2,7072La revue de cuisine: 2. Tango
2,6863Sonata No.1 for piano - I.Poco allegro
2,5154Sonata No.1 for piano - II.Moderato
2,1785Loutky (Puppets), H. 92: No. 1. Pierrotovo zastavenicko (Pierrot's Serenade)
1,9066Concertino for Piano Trio & String Orchestra, H. 232: I. Allegro (con brio)
1,6797Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1, H. 196: III. Allegro
1,4708Sonata No.1 for piano - III.Adagio. Poco allegro
1,2959Špalíček Suite No. 2, H. 214b: II. The Shoemaker's Capricious Patron
1,24010Etudes and Polkas, Vol. 3 - No. 1. Etude in A minor
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Excerpts Vol.1 (Piano Music)
Sonata No.1 for piano, Études and Polkas Book I-III, Sonata No.1 for flute and piano (Radoslav Kvapil, Gunilla von Bahr, Kerstin Hindart)
Concertos for Piano and Orchestra No.1-5, Piano Concertino (Emil Leichner - piano, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Jiří Bělohlávek)
Martinu: Sinfonietta 'La Jolla'/La revue de cuisine, etc.
Martinu, B.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 2
Symphony no.4 (Prague Symphony Orchestra, Martin Turnovský)
Excerpts Vol.2 (Chamber Music)
Martinů: Orchestral Works
Concerto Grosso, Sinfonia for 2 orchestras, Tre Ricerari (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, cond.Jiří Bělohlávek)
Field Mass; Double Concerto for 2 Orchestras, Piano & Timpani - Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus and soloists, conductor Sir Charles Mackerras
Martinů: Suites from Špalíček & Rhapsody Concerto
Martinu / Foerster / Novak: Cello Concertos