General information
Title CZKoncert pro klavír a orchestr č. 3
Title ENConcerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3
Title DEKonzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 3
Title FRConcerto pour piano et orchestre n° 3
CategoryConcertos
SubcategoryPiano Concertos
Halbreich number316
Parts of the composition (movements)1. Allegro; 2. Andante poco moderato; 3. Moderato - Allegro (poco)
Durata25'
Instruments2222-4231-Timp-Batt-Archi
Solo voicePf
Dedicatee Firkušný, Rudolf
Diplomatic transcription of the dedicationTo | Rudolf Firkušný
Note on the dedicationDedication on the title page of the autograph score.
Origin
Place of compositionNew York, NY
Year of origin1948
Initiation of composition09.04.1947
Completion of composition10.03.1948
First performance
Performer Firkušný, Rudolf
Hendel, Walter
Date of the first performance20.11.1949
Location of the first performanceDallas, Texas (USA)
Note on the first performanceRudolf Firkušný (Pf), Walter Hendl (conductor)
Ensemble Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Autograph deposition
Owner of the sourceBritish Library
Note on the autograph depostitionTwo reproductions of the autograph score are held by the Czech Museum of Music in Prague, one is located at the Bohuslav Martinů Centre in Polička (deposit of the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation).
Copyright
CopyrightSchott Music GmbH & Co.
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First edition
PublisherČeský hudební fond
Place of issuePraha
Year of publication1960
Editions available at the BM Institute
Panton, Prague, 1960
Call number at the BM Institute: 1056a KV, 1056c KV
Specification of the edition: Piano reduction - 1st edition
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Panton, Prague, 1985
Call number at the BM Institute: 1215kp
Specification of the edition: Study score, revised edition
Details of this edition
Panton, Prague, 2003
Call number at the BM Institute: 1056b KV
Specification of the edition: Piano reduction; reprint of the 1st edition (1960)
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Panton, Prague, 2008
Call number at the BM Institute: 1056 partitura
Specification of the edition: Score, reprint of the 1st edtition (1960)
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Note Title on the title page of the autograph score: "Concerto No. 3. | for piano | and orchestra."
First movement was completed on 31.12.1947, second movement on 15.02.1948.
Czech Music Fund published only performing materials in 1960.
Panton published piano reduction by Karel Šolc in 1960 and study score in 1985.
About the composition

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3, H 316  is a twentieth-century concerto, composed by Bohuslav Martinů during his stay in America, that uses form’s earlier incarnations – a strong, delightful virtuosic tour de force. His friend Rudolf Firkušný had asked Martinů for a concerto in 1945, but it was not until 1947 that the composer set to work on this Piano Concerto No. 3, which was completed on 10th March, 1948. Rudolf Firkušný gave the first performance to this composition in Dallas, Texas, on 20th November 1949, with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walter Hendl. The work harks back to classical-romantic concertos, invoking Beethoven and Brahms in particular, with certain passages exhibiting a characteristic Martinů twinge.

Mark Gresham, Cary Lewis, Martinů: Piano Concertos 1, Naxos 2010.

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