* 1890 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer ( d. 1959 )

Among them were Bohuslav Martinů, André Souris, and Edgard Varèse, who stated that his work Arcana was drawn from a dream sequence.

* August 28 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer ( b. 1890 )

The Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů wrote six symphonies.

* Czech — Martinů, Bohuslav: " Pierrot's Serenade ", from Marionettes, III ( c. 1913, pub.

Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů composed his Memorial to Lidice ( an 8-minute orchestral work ) in 1943 as a response to the massacre.

Milhaud ( like his contemporaries Paul Hindemith, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Alan Hovhaness, Bohuslav Martinů and Heitor Villa-Lobos ) was an extremely rapid creator, for whom the art of writing music seemed almost as natural as breathing.

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* Bohuslav Martinů ( 50th anniversary of his death )

* Bohuslav Martinů – String Quartet No. 3 H. 183, Violin Sonata No. 1 H. 355

In the 19th and 20th centuries countless composers after Mozart and Beethoven have taken up this challenge, including Lennox Berkeley, Carlos Chávez, Henry Cowell, Jean Cras, Paul Dessau, Ernst von Dohnányi, Hanns Eisler, Jean Françaix, Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Paul Hindemith, Gideon Klein, Frank Martin, Bohuslav Martinů, Darius Milhaud, Ernest John Moeran, Manuel Ponce, Max Reger, Terry Riley, Alexis Roland-Manuel, Miklós Rózsa, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schubert, William Schuman, Jean Sibelius, Robert Simpson, Richard Strauss, Sergei Taneyev, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Anton Webern, and Eugène Ysaÿe.

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In the twentieth century, the concerto grosso has been used by composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Bloch, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bohuslav Martinů, Malcolm Williamson, Henry Cowell, Alfred Schnittke, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Andrei Eshpai, Eino Tamberg, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jean Françaix and Philip Glass.

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Czech composers Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, and Bohuslav Martinů all wrote mazurkas to at least some extent.

The modern composer Bohuslav Martinů wrote three septets: a group of six dances called Les Rondes for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, two violins, and piano ( 1930 ); a piece called Serenade No. 3 for oboe, clarinet, four violins, and cello ( 1932 ); and a Fantasie for theremin, oboe, piano, and string quartet ( 1944 ).

Bohuslav Martinů wrote an opera in four acts, also called The Greek Passion ( Czech Řecké pašije ), based on the novel, with a libretto by the composer.

The Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů wrote two works in this genre: Sinfonia Concertante for Two Orchestras, H. 219 ( 1932 ) and Sinfonia Concertante No. 2 in B-flat major for Violin, Cello, Oboe, Bassoon and Orchestra with Piano, H. 322 ( 1949 ).

Concertos and concert works for two pianos have been written by Bach ( two to four pianos, BWV 1060-65, actually harpsichord concertos, but often performed on pianos ), Mozart ( two, K 242 ( originally for three pianos and orchestra ) and K 365 ), Mendelssohn ( two, 1823-4 ), Bruch ( 1912 ), Béla Bartók ( 1927 / 1932, a reworking of his Sonata for two pianos and percussion ), Poulenc ( 1932 ), Arthur Benjamin ( 1938 ), Peter Mieg ( 1939-41 ), Darius Milhaud ( 1941 and 1951 ), Bohuslav Martinů ( 1943 ), Ralph Vaughan Williams ( c. 1946 ), Roy Harris ( 1946 ), Gian Francesco Malipiero ( two works, both 1957 ), Walter Piston ( 1959 ), Luciano Berio ( 1973 ), and Harald Genzmer ( 1990 ).

He received the dedication of both Bohuslav Martinů's Cello Concerto No. 1 ( 1930, rev.

* Bohuslav Martinu's concerto for string quartet, concertino for piano trio and string orchestra, two concertante duos for two violins, concerto for two pianos, sinfonia concertante No. 2 for violin, cello, oboe, bassoon and orchestra with piano, and his concerto for violin and piano.

The piano concerto form survived through the 20th century into the 21st, with examples being written by Arnold Schoenberg, Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Nikolai Medtner, Alexander Tcherepnin, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Michael Tippett, Charles Wuorinen, York Bowen, Frank Martin, Bohuslav Martinů, Peter Mieg, Heinrich Sutermeister, Dmitri Shostakovich, Samuel Barber, Witold Lutosławski, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Peter Mennin, György Ligeti, Elliott Carter, Selim Palmgren, Leroy Anderson, and others.

In 1943, he gave the premiere of Bohuslav Martinů's second concerto, which was written for him.

Stravinskian neoclassicism was taken up by the French composers Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Arthur Honegger, and by Bohuslav Martinů, who revived the Baroque concerto grosso form in his works.

Immensely wealthy, Sacher commissioned works from many well-known composers, including Igor Stravinsky ( who provided him with the Concerto in D ), Béla Bartók ( Divertimento for Strings, the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, the String Quartet No. 6, and the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta ), Bohuslav Martinů ( many works including the Double Concerto, Concerto da camera etc.

Bohuslav Martinů composed his Field Mass for Tauský and his regimental band, but the fall of France prevented them from giving the premiere.

Because Sigismund didn't send a ransom for him, Bohuslav decided to join the Hussites.

He continued his post-graduate studies in composition with Arnold Franchetti, Isadore Freed, Bohuslav Martinů, and Lukas Foss, but it was Judy Garland who brought Elliott to California to become an arranger for her television show.

This led to offers from numerous international opera companies ranging from Claudio Monteverdi to Peter Maxwell Davies, including Pamina, Despina, Susanna, Aminta ( Il re pastore ), Vixen, Michaela, Musetta, Ophelie, Leila, Marguerite, Violetta, Julietta ( Bohuslav Martinů ) and Adina for companies such as the Canadian Opera Company, Scottish Opera, English National Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Spoleto Festival, Opéra de Nice, Vlaamse Opera, New Zealand Opera, National Theatre of Prague, and Opera North.

* Bohuslav Martinů-Harpsichord Concerto ( 1935 )

* An American Concerto: Tribute to Sigurd Raschèr ( 1999 ) ( with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic ) Albany Records TROY 331