Martinu and His World.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brezina, Ales.

Contributor:

Beckerman, Michael.

Series:

The Bard Music Festival Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--20th century.

Music.

Operas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (426 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2025.

Summary:

This book explores the life, works, and legacy of Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů, offering insights into his operatic and instrumental compositions, his philosophical ideas, and his contributions to 20th-century music. Divided into thematic sections, it examines Martinů's approach to memory, history, and modernism within his artistic creations, while highlighting his collaborations, influences, and the cultural contexts of his time. The work also includes critical essays, interviews, and scholarly analyses, making it a valuable resource for music scholars, historians, and enthusiasts interested in Martinů's impact on classical and contemporary music. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Introduction: Martinů and his worlds / Michael Beckerman

Part I. Operatic perspectives: Office for dreaming-or the simple future / Jiří Gruša, trans. Susan H. Gillespie ; "We have no railway station": Juliette or the renunciation of memory / Aleš Březina ; Byzantine music in Martinů's opera The Greek Passion / Marios Christou ; Meditation on the first Ave Maria of Bohuslav Martinů's Sister Paskalina / Jon Kantor Meadow ; Ambiguous historicism in Martinů's The Marriage / Martin Nedbal ; The long shadow of Juliette: Martinů's late musical aesthetic and the Fantasies symphoniques (Symphony No. 6) / Ivana Rentch, trans. Susan H. Gillespie

Part II: Experiments in instrumental music from Baroque to Jazz: Martinů and the reduction of music in the 1920s / Giselher Schubert, trans. Susan H. Gillespie ; Negotiating the "Concerto grosso type" in Paris and Princeton: Martinů's multi-soloist concertante works from a generational perspective / Brian S. Locke ; "I changed practically nothing": Bohuslav Martinů's collaboration on La Revue de cuisine / Aleš Březina, trans. Adam Prentis

Part III. Escapes and arrivals: Martinů, Benjamin, and the changing experience of historical time / Axel Körner ; "To my countrymen-workers of Cleveland": The world premiere of Bohuslav Martinů's Symphony no. 2 / Markéta Kratochvílová, Marek Pechač, trans. Adam Prentis ; Challenging modernism: Bohuslav Martinů's works at the Venice International Festival of Contemporary Music / Vincenzina C. Ottomano, trans. Courtney Quaintance

Part IV. Documents and editions: More than just corrected notation: The Bohuslav Martinů complete edition / Aleš Březina, trans. Adam Prentis ; On the complete edition of Bohuslav Martinů's correspondence / Vít Zouhar ; Martinů's notebook of dreams / introduced and annotated by Michael Beckerman ; Martinů in the U.S.A.: Interviews with the composer's American friends and students / conducted by Aleš Březina, edited and introduced by Michael Beckerman, Aleš Březina

Part V. Coda: Music and politics in the twentieth century: The parallel lives of Bohuslav Martinů and Rudolf Firkušný / Leon Botstein.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Brezina, Ales Martinu and His World

ISBN:

9780226845722

OCLC:

1530376821