Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959)
Bio
Martinu was born in Polička in Bohemia. He took up violin and impressed his small town enough they raised money to send him to the Prague Conservatory. He did not succeed in school but made a lifelong friend in composer Stanislav Novák. He eventually went to Paris and studied under Serge Koussevitzky and then to Boston where he conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He taught at Mannes and Princeton and impacted many of the next generation, perhaps most profoundly David Diamond.
Music
Sinfonietta giocosa
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 4
String Quartet No. 1
Symphony No. 6 "Fataisies symphoniques"
Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani
Piano Concertos
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