General information
Title CZZimní noc
Title ENA Winter Night
Title DEWinternacht
CategoryVocal Music
SubcategoryWorks for Solo Voice and Piano
Halbreich number26
InstrumentsV Pf
Origin
Place of compositionPrague
Year of origin1910
Initiation of composition1910
Completion of composition1910
First performance
Autograph deposition
InstitutionCzech Museum of Music
DepositionPrague
OwnerČeské muzeum hudby
Note on the autograph depostitionAutograph missing. *** Sketch located at the Czech Museum of Music. *** Copy of the score by Vlasta Janelová's hand deposited at Bohuslav Martinů Centre in Polička.
Copyright
CopyrightCopyright free
Sources
References Related writings
Documents in the Library
Note Lyrics by Adolf Heyduk.
About the composition

The Winter Night (Zimní noc, 1910) is a rather more subtle evocation of the approaching of daybreak. Although whether this will bring happiness or merely pained remembrance is not made explicit by the text or in its setting.

Richard Whitehouse, Songs, Vol. 2 – The Months, Naxos 2014

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