Martinu - Suite Concertante (3/4)

Bohuslav Martinu (Martinu) (December 8, 1890 - August 28, 1959) was a Bohemian-Czech composers, six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large number of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works wrote . He was a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and taught music in his hometown. In 1923, Martinů left Czechoslovakia for Paris, and retired from the romantic style in which he had been educated. In the 1930s he experimented with Expressionismand constructivism, and became an admirer of the current European technical developments, through his orchestral works as Half-Time and La bagarre. He also took jazz idioms, as in his Kuchyňské Revue ("Kitchen Revue"). From the postwar avant-garde styles, neo-classicism influenced him the most. He continued to use Czech and Moravian folk melodies in his works, usually children's rhymes, for example in Otvírání studánek ("The Opening of the Wells"). He emigrated to theUnited States in 1941, fleeing the German invasion of France. Although as a composer, he was successful in America, received many orders, he was homesick for Czechoslovakia. He never returned to his home, and he died in Switzerland.



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