General information
Title CZMelo
Subtitle CZhudba k francouzskému filmu
Title ENMelo
Subtitle ENmusic for the French film
Title DEMelo
Subtitle DEMusik zu einem französischen Film
CategoryStage Works and Film Music
SubcategoryFilm Music
Halbreich number223
Origin
Place of compositionParis
Year of origin1932
Initiation of composition1932
Completion of composition1932
First performance
Date of the first performance26.05.1932
Location of the first performanceParis
Autograph deposition
Note on the autograph depostitionAutograph missing; reference to the existence of the composition only in Šafránek's monograph.
Copyright
Note on copyrightCopyright free
First edition
Note on first editionNot published
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About the composition

In a letter to his family in Polička dated 16 November 1930 (Mar 1930-11-16), Martinů writes: „Mně to také tak dobře letos nejde nakladatelé se teď bojí něco vydávat. Myslím že se mi podaří něco dělat do zvukového filmu tak bych přece něco vydělal.“ [“Things aren’t going so well for me this year either, publishers are afraid to release anything right now. I think I’ll manage to do some work on a sound film, so I’d at least earn something.”] He is referring to the French film MELO, for which he did not compose the music until 1932. The music is now missing, and we know of its existence only from Miloš Šafránek’s monograph.

Harry Halbreich, Bohuslav Martinů: Werkverzeichnis und Biografie, Mainz: Schott Music, 2007, p. 225.

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