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	Immigrant Composers - NPRN Composer of the Month
		Martinu began studying violin at age seven, and soon developed into a reasonably proficient violinist as both a soloist and in string quartets.
		Martinu's Second Symphony is an intimate, lyrical work that was performed by most leading orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic within two or three years of its first performance in 1943.
		Martinu's appearance and character in 1948 are pleasantly described by Michael Steinberg: "Tall, thin, gray-haired, blue-eyed, he had a narrow face of distinctly Slavic cast, a face that explored from time to time the risk of a smile which, when it blossomed, delightfully combined warmth and skepticism.
	net.unl.edu /musicFeat/composer/cmemmartinu.html (1139 words)

	Bohuslav Tablic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bohuslav Martinu Life, works, evaluation of major pieces, operas, photo gallery, links to related composers.
		Bohuslav Martinu Brief biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of stage, orchestral, choral, vocal, and chamber music, plus operas and ballets.
		Bohuslav Martinu Summary and extended biographies, photograph, performances, works list, discography and new releases, introduction to his music, and samples in RAM format from Boosey and Hawkes.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Bohuslav_Tablic.html (206 words)

	Bohuslav Martinu Brief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bohuslav Martinu was born on December 8, 1890 in Policka, Czechoslovakia in the Bohemian-Moravian highlands.
		Bohuslav Martinu was one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century.
		Martinu's compositions reflect an accumulation of the techniques and styles that were developing in European music during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
	www.classical-composers.org /html/BohuslavMartinuBrief.html (3256 words)

	Faculty of Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Martinu spent his last years in Italy and Switzerland working on a variety of compositions including his last opera The Greek Passion, the Parables for orchestra and the cantata The Prophecy of Isaiah.
		Though Martinu believed passionately in her abilities as a musician, their relationship endured several crises, and one of them in 1938, but they were still lovers during the spring of 1939 when they were planning to leave together for the United States (Martinu was seriously considering leaving his wife).
		Martinu's last composition was The Prophecy of Isaiah (1959) a work which lacks the ecstasy or excitement so often found in his music and substitutes for it a granite severity which reminds one of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex.
	www.tech.port.ac.uk /staffweb/billingd/martinu.htm (3313 words)

	Bohuslav Martinu Biography / Biography of Bohuslav Martinu Biography Biography
		Bohuslav Martinu was the son of a small-town shoemaker who was also the custodian of a church tower used as a fire-lookout station.
		Martinu lived in the simplest manner, making his living by teaching a few private pupils and from the commissions he received from time to time.
		Martinu's music was in no sense reactionary, but at the same time it was never blatantly "modern" or "experimental." It is characterized by the freedom of its melodies, perhaps influenced by Czech inflections, the vigor of its rhythms, and the transparency of its textures.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-bohuslav-martinu (661 words)

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		Bohuslav's father was the bell ringer and watchman in the little Bohemian town of Policka.
		Thus it was that in the small tower room of the church of St. James, where the Martinus lived, on the public holiday of 8 December 1890, Bohuslav was born with the sound of church bells ringing joyously all round him.
		Young Bohuslav, who was tall, thin, and weakly, often had to be carried by his father up and down the 193-step staircase in the tower.
	www.chez.com /craton/musique/martinu/martinu.htm (1402 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Born in the Bohemian village of Policka, Bohuslav Martinu was a very prolific and varied composer.
		There is a bewilderingly large amount of chamber music by Martinu, duos, trios, quartets, quintets, sextets, septets, octets and nonets.
		In addition to a large number of shorter piano pieces of all kinds, Martinu wrote a Fantaisie and other pieces for two pianos, as well as music for harpsichord, leaving his organ Vigilia unfinished at the time of his death in 1959.
	www.karadar.com /Dictionary/martinu.html (421 words)

	Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano by Bohuslav Martinu
		Martinu valued solitude, and during his time alone read voraciously in addition to composing.
		Martinu moved to Prague at age 16 to study at the Conservatory.
		Martinu did not enjoy living in the US finding it a rather inhuman place compared to the warm-hearted cities he loved in Europe.
	www.tishkoff.com /articles/martinu.htm (1009 words)

	Nadace Bohuslava Martinů
		Bohuslav Martinu Institute in Prague was founded in 1995.
		The aim of the Institute is to gather under one roof all the possible documents written by Bohuslav Martinu as well as all written materials about him so musicologists, musicians and the public can have the possibility of studying the composers life and work within the context of its period.
		As Bohuslav Martinu traveled extensively and lived not only in Bohemia but predominantly in Western Europe and the USA, his handwritten scores, correspondence and other documents are located in a number of public institutions and in the possession of private individuals all over the world.
	www.martinu.cz /t_page.php?pid=195 (361 words)

	Bohuslav Martinu
		Bohuslav Martinu (December 8, 1890 - August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer.
		Martinu studied briefly at the Prague Conservatory (before being dismissed for "incorrigible negligence") and later continued to study on his own.
		Martinu was a very prolific composer, writing almost 400 pieces.
	www.fastload.org /bo/Bohuslav_Martinu.html (258 words)

	Bohuslav Martinů - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bohuslav Martinů listen [▶] (born in Polička, December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer.
		He was born in a bell-tower where his father, a shoemaker by trade, was a watchman.
		The pressures of mechanisation and uniformity to which it is subject call for protest and the artist has only one means of expressing this, by music." - Bohuslav Martinů
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bohuslav_Martinu (498 words)

	Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Born in a church tower in the Bohemian village of Policka, Bohuslav Martinu was a prolific enough composer as a child, before he entered Prague Conservatory as a violin student in 1906.
		Martinu was an immensely prolific and varied composer.
		Major choral works by Martinu must include his oratorio on the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh and the Biblical The Prophecy of Isaiah.
	www.naxos.com /composer/btm.asp?fullname=Martinu,+Bohuslav (509 words)

	Classical Music : Bohuslav Martinu Online Gift Shop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		By: Bohuslav Martinu, JirÃ BelohlÃ¡vek, Jaroslav Saroun, Karel Ruzicka
		By: Bohuslav Martinu, Dietfried Bernet, Vienna Symphony Orchestra
		By: Bohuslav Martinu, Neeme JÃ¤rvi, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
	uk.shop.mercocentro.com /d-classical-ArtistSearch-Bohuslav+Martinu.htm (108 words)

	The Musical Times: Bohuslav Martinu 1890-1959 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He was born on 8 December 1890 in a belfry at Policka in eastern Bohemia, where his father was a shoemaker and also watchman of the church tower.
		When the Germans invaded France in 1940 Martinu and his wife fled from the country, and after a protracted and hazardous journey eventually reached America.
		An extremely prolific composer, with a number of operas, symphonies, concertos and chamber works to his credit, Martinu remained essentially Czech in character, though his style was sometimes superficially cosmopolitan.
	www.musicaltimes.co.uk /archive/obits/195910martinu.html (398 words)

	Bohuslav Martinu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Martinů studied briefly at the Prague Conservatory (before being dismissed for "incorrigible and later continued to study on his He left Czechoslovakia for Paris in 1923 he retained many links with his birthplace.
		Bohuslav Martinu, 1890-1959: Life and work = sa vie et son oeuvre = Leben und Werk = [zhizn§ i tvorchestvo]
		Bohuslav Martinu, 8.12.1890-28.8.1959: Bibliografický katalog : bibliographical catalogue
	www.freeglossary.com /Bohuslav_Martinu (345 words)

	Bohuslav Martinu
		Martinu was born in a church tower, of which his father was caretaker, in the town of Policka in eastern Bohemia.
		Martinu returned to Prague in 1946 to become a professor of composition at the National Conservatory in Prague.
		Martinu produced works in many musical forms: operas, ballets, symphonies, concerti, choral music, and a large body of chamber music for various instrumental combinations.
	www.fuguemasters.com /martinu.html (1339 words)

	Bohuslav MARTINU (Policka 1890 - Liestal (Bâle) 1959)
		Chez Debussy, Martinu trouva le refus de l’emphase, de l’exagération expressive, de tout schème formel préétabli, l’amour de l’élégance concise du discours, de la pureté et du raffinement du langage, bref tout ce qui l’attirait vers la France et sa culture.
		Martinu découvrit le Madrigal anglais de la Renaissance en 1922, lors d’un concert donné à Prague par les English Madrigal Singers.
		Martinu fut avant tout un chantre de la joie, en un siècle qui en est si cruellement dépourvu.
	www.lamediatheque.be /TCHEQUIE/MARTINUBIO.htm (1374 words)

	KAPRALOVA SOCIETY
		Martinu started working on the concerto in early August 1938, shortly after his return from Czechoslovakia, when he was already getting depressed by Kapralova's absence and the prospect that he would not be able to see her for several months.
		Martinu - love and true understanding (...) Age difference never bothered me. Of course, as time would progress I might complain about it here and there but by that time there would be children and that would solve it all.
		One is tempted to speculate that it was Kapralova's farewell to her clandestine affair with Martinu and a closure she needed to move on with her life.
	www.kapralova.org /CHRONOLOGY2.htm (4877 words)

	Bohuslav Martinu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bohuslav Martinů (December 8, 1890 - August 28, 1959) was a Czech RepublicCzech composer/.
		Sometimes, young musicians must think that all those thousands of hours they put into practicing scales, perfecting their fingering and learning to play the world's great music for violin, piano, cello or tuba during grade school, high school and college was the easy part.
		The last time he was in town, he shared the stage of the Santa Barbara Bowl with the likes of Keith Richards and Norah Jones.
	www.infothis.com /find/Bohuslav_Martinu (407 words)

	Bohuslav Martinu festival underway in Prague - 10-12-2002 - Radio Prague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Martinu gave the incomes from copyrights of her husband to the Czech Music Fund, she said it was aimed at young people so that they are not so poor so long as we were.
		At the premiere on Sunday, the Berg chamber orchestra a piece which Martinu composed 70 years ago as the accompanying music to a promotion film for the Bata shoe factory in the town of Zlin.
		It's not exactly the case of Martinu but some of his works are very much frequented and beloved by the common concert audience, some of the works are first: very demanding because of financial sources, second: they are not perhaps so popular, but they are worth to be listened to.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/35391 (708 words)

	Bohuslav Martinu - Symphonies No 3&5 [TB]: Classical Reviews- February 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Martinu turned to composing symphonies only when he had passed the age of fifty.
		Having embarked upon his symphonic odyssey, Martinu found that the genre suited him, and he produced a symphony a year for the next four years, making five in all.
		Make no mistake, although performances of Martinu are still few and far between in our concert halls, his music is direct and approachable and inspired.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Feb02/Martinu3.htm (476 words)

	The Bohuslav Martinu Link Page on Classic Cat
		Bohuslav Martinu - Summary and extended biographies, photograph, performances, works list, discography and new releases, introduction to his music, and samples in RAM format from Boosey and Hawkes.
		Bohuslav Martinu - Brief biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of stage, orchestral, choral, vocal, and chamber music, plus operas and ballets.
		Martinu, Bohuslav Jan - Biography noting studies, teaching, and violin playing and summarizing his major works.
	www.classiccat.net /martinu_b/links.htm (301 words)

	Bohuslav Martinu Reviews - Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bohuslav Martinu: The Frescos of Piero Della Francesca / Rhapsody-Concerto for Viola and Orchestra / Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani - Nobuko Imai / Malmö Symphony Orchestra / James DePreist
		by: Ernst von Dohnanyi, Antonin Dvorak, Zoltan Kodaly, Bohuslav Martinu, Josef (composer) Suk, Domus
		by: Antonin Dvorak, Zdenek Fibich, Julius Fucik, Leos Janacek, Bohuslav Martinu, Oskar Nedbal, Vitezslav Novak, Bedrich Smetana, Josef (composer) Suk, Vaclav Neumann
	www.pixelbattle.com /cgi-bin/shop-mode-classical-search_type-ArtistSearch-input_string-Bohuslav+Martinu-locale-us.html (194 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bohuslav Martinu (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Bohuslav Martinu, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
		Bohuslav Martinu[bO´hooslAf mAr´tinOO] Pronunciation Key, 1890–1959, Czech composer; studied at the Prague Conservatory.
		Martinu lived in Prague from 1907 to 1923, in Paris from 1923 to 1940 and, fleeing the Nazis, moved to the United States in 1941.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Martinu.html (251 words)

	Bohuslav Martinu International Politics Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		By: Antonin Dvorak, Leos Janacek, Isa Krejci, Otmar Macha, Bohuslav Martinu, Vitezslav Novak, Dmitry Shostakovich, Bedrich Smetana, Karel Ancerl, Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
		By: Leos Janacek, Bohuslav Martinu, Josef (composer) Suk, JirÃ BelohlÃ¡vek, Orchestr CeskÃ¡ Filharmonie
		By: Pavel Horacek, Bohuslav Martinu, JirÃ BelohlÃ¡vek, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Dagmar Peckova, Jirina Markova, Miroslav Kopp
	i-politics.xnation.org /international-politics-m-classical-pn-7-st-ArtistSearch-ins-Bohuslav+Martinu.html (163 words)

	Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: M: Martinů, Bohuslav Jan
		Bohuslav Martinu · cached · Life, works, evaluation of major pieces, operas, photo gallery, links to related composers.
		Bohuslav Martinu · cached · Summary and extended biographies, photograph, performances, works list, discography and new releases, introduction to his music, and samples in RAM format from Boosey and Hawkes.
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	Bohuslav Martinu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		"Five Short Pieces for Piano Trio" by the contemporary Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu are rhythmic and bold and served to dramatically wake up the ears of the...
		Toronto Symphony Orchestra conflated the two meanings of fantasy, musical and non-musical, in a program of pieces by Paul Dukas, Bohuslav Martinu and Hector...
		PARTIAL RECOVERY: DvorÃ¡k's fellow but later Czech Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) comes off better, with a competent account of his dancing, tuneful Second...
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