Though Bohuslav Martinu produced a lot of didactic material for the Piano not all of it has been published and many delightful works have remained unknown.In this Easy Piano Pieces and Dances album Martinu s four-part Piano cycle Crotchets and Quavers composed in Paris in 1937 appears for the first time. It is devoted to changes of metre and tempo.The work previously known only from his correspondence was long considered lost until a manuscript copy resurfaced in Brno in 2011. The jazz piece One-step composed in 1921 is also made accessible here for the first time. It hitherto only existed in the composer sautograph.Along with these two discoveries this album contains the dance pieces that Martinu composed in Policka in the 1920s as well as the three-part cycle Christmas composed in Paris in 1927. These were previously available in Compositions for Policka .Includes original Martinu works some published for the first timeForeword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and fingering by Lucie Harasim BernáEasy to moderately difficult pieces
SKU: HL.48183028
UPC: 888680877941. 9.0x12.0x0.093 inches.
Composed by the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu in 1930, Miniature Study is a chamber work for Cello and Piano that lasts 10 minutes and 30 seconds. The difficulty for Cello is considered as medium and for the Piano, easy to medium. Miniature Study is divided in seven sections: I. Moderato II. Poco andante III. Poco moderato IV. Andante V. Poco allegro VI. Allegretto VII. Moderato Good for recitals, this piece is really melodic and cheerful, with some parts quiet and others quite energetic. Bohuslav Martinu(1890-1959) also wrote 13 other ballets, 15 operas and 6 symphonies and some orchestral and chamber music..
SKU: BR.BG-962
ISBN 9790004131916. 9 x 12 inches.
The present collection consists of a number of petty compositions most of which are within easy reach by young pianists of an intermediate technical level. In a lot of compositions for pianoforte, Mr Martinu has had himself inspired by children's world; he has been very close to children's imagination in a few cycles of miniatures for piano, especially in his three books of Puppets, as well as in Fables, Compositions for Children etc. Even his compositions of simple instrumental stylization possess a musical invention and an interesting musical description, such as the merry onomatopoeic trifle A Procession of Cats at Solstice Night. Little Eve's Composition and Contemplation, both of which were published in 1935 and 1936 in the music supplement to the magazine Eva, are educationally and musically priceless for young pianists with whom they arouse a sense for a modern expression. A touching meditation for piano are the Recollections, a small recital composition of 1957, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the death of the Brno composer Vaclav Kapral. lt is dedicated both to his and his gifted daughter Vitezslava Kapralova's memory. Prelude and another composition without name are two remarkable achievements of young Mr Martinu. Even without looking at the date of origin, 1924, it may be easily recognized from the character of music that they are congenial to the recent stimulations of the Paris avantgarde of the twenties-both rhythmically and harmonically.
