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Title CZDuo pro housle a violoncello č. 2
Title ENDuo for Violin and Violoncello No. 2
Title DEDuett für Violine und Cello Nr. 2
Title FRDuo pour violon et violoncelle n° 2
CategoryChamber Music
SubcategoryDuos for Other Instruments
Halbreich number371
Parts of the composition (movements)1. Allegretto; 2. Adagio; 3. Poco allegro
Durata10'
InstrumentsVl Vc
Dedicatee Mohr-Bally, Trauti
Diplomatic transcription of the dedicationDédié | à Madame | Trauti Mohr.
Note on the dedicationTrauti Mohr-Bally
Origin
Place of compositionSchönenberg - Pratteln
Year of origin1958
Initiation of composition28.06.1958
Completion of composition01.07.1958
First performance
Performer Schneeberger, Hansheinz
Stähelin, Dieter
Date of the first performance04.03.1962
Location of the first performanceBasel, Switzerland (private performance)
Note on the first performanceHansheinz Schneeberger (Vl), Dieter Stähelin (Vc)
Autograph deposition
Owner of the sourceNadace Bohuslava Martinů
DepositionCentrum Bohuslava Martinů v Poličce
Note on the autograph depostitionFacsimile of the autograph is held by the Éditions Max Eschig in Paris; its copy is located is located at the Bohuslav Martinů Centre in Polička.
Copyright
Note on copyrightÉditions Max Eschig, Paris
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First edition
Place of issuePaříž
PublisherÉditions Max Eschig
Year of publication1964
Editions available at the BM Institute
Éditions Max Eschig, Paris, 1964
Call number at the BM Institute: 1131, 1131a
Specification of the edition: 1st edition
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Note Title on the title page of the autograph score: "Duo. | Trois mouvements | pour Violon et Violoncelle."
Public premiere took place in Spring 1963 in Basel (ISCM); H. Schneeberger and D. Stähelin.
About the composition

The Duo for Violin and Cello No. 2 was written in 1958, less than two years before the composer's death. Bohuslav Martinů took only four days to complete it, working at the residence of his admirer and friend Paul Sacher, near Basel. This duo, featuring numerous stylistic and harmonic peculiarities characteristic for Martinů's neo-classical period, boasts an extraordinary degree of sonic refinement, at the same time offering to its audience an immensely good deal of pure entertainment. Even so, it echoes the composer's nostalgic longing for his native country, a note indelibly present in most of his late output. In a letter to his birthplace, the town of Polička (of 12 July, 1958), Martinů explained the background of the work's making: "It has been commissioned by a gentleman who wishes to present it to his wife as a gift on her name-day, so she'd have the autograph score." A virtuoso composition in three movements, the Duo is dedicated to Mrs Trauti Mohr-Bally, the wife of well-known Basel musicologist Ernst Mohr. It was premiered in a private circle, in the couple’s home, on 4 March, 1962, by violinist Hansheinz Schneeberger and cellist Dieter Stähelin.

Aleš Březina, Czech String Duo, © 2002 Music Vars 

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