General information
Title CZAdagio (Vzpomínky)
Title ENAdagio (Memories)
Title DEAdagio (Erinnerungen)
Title FRAdagio (Souvenirs)
CategoryWorks for Keyboards
SubcategoryPiano
Halbreich number362
Parts of the composition (movements)Adagio
Durata3'
InstrumentsPf
Dedicatee Kaprál, Václav
Kaprálová, Vítězslava
Diplomatic transcription of the dedicationVěnováno | vzpomínkám | na Václava Kaprála | a Vitulku.
Note on the dedicationDedicated to memories of Václav Kaprál and Vitulka [Vítězslava Kaprálová].
Origin
Place of compositionRome
Year of origin1957
Initiation of composition1957
Completion of composition03/1957
First performance
Autograph deposition
InstitutionBohuslav Martinů Centre in Polička
DepositionPolička
OwnerCentrum Bohuslava Martinů v Poličce
Copyright
CopyrightSchott Music Panton, Prague
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Editions
Panton, Prague, 1995
Call number at the BM Institute: 1081
Specification of the edition: 3rd edition of collection called Piano compositions originally published in 1970
Details of this edition
Sources
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Documents in the Library
Note Published in: Klavírní skladby, Panton, Prague 1970, 1974,1995 (P 1069). *** No title given by the composer in the autograph. *** Inscription of Marie Martinů on the last page of the autograph: "12/3 v březnu došlo [do Poličky]" (arrived [to Polička] on 12/3 in March).
About the composition

The work titled Adagio (Memories), H. 362, originated on March 12, 1957, in Rome and is "dedicated to the memory of Václav Kaprál and Vitulka". "Vitulka", of course, refers to none other than Vítězslava Kaprálová, the pupil and, for a certain time, Bohuslav Martinů's intimate friend. Despite the score's moderate, one-page scope, the work is replete with inter-textual references, which makes it a little gem. Besides undertones of the opera Juliette (The Key to Dreams). H. 253, whose main theme - seeking a dreamt-of woman in a world full of uniformity and poor memory - the composer additionally connected with his meeting Vítězslava Kaprálová, the ravishing middle section also evokes the pet name "song" with which Martinů denoted his Vitulka.

Aleš Březina, Martinů / Jeux,  © 2008 Supraphon

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