General information
Title CZMalá ukolébavka
Title ENThe Little Lullaby [auth.]
Title DEEin klein Schlaflied
CategoryWorks for Keyboards
SubcategoryPiano
Halbreich number122bis
Durata
InstrumentsPf
Dedicatee Machanová, Antonie
Diplomatic transcription of the dedicationTo misis Ant. Machanova
Note on the dedicationAntonie Machanová
Origin
Place of compositionPolička
Year of origin1919
Initiation of composition1919
Completion of composition30.10.1919
First performance
Autograph deposition
Owner of the sourceCentrum Bohuslava Martinů v Poličce
Copyright
Note on copyrightBärenreiter Praha
First edition
Sources
References Related writings
Documents in the Library
About the composition

The Little Lullaby (Malá ukolébavka, H 122bis) of 1919 is composed in a very effective arch form, in which the active middle section could be imagined as depicting a restless child struggling against the soporific qualities of the music, and the final non-ending as he drifts off to sleep. Written in Polička during a summer return from Paris in 1929.

The recording of the composition was released for the first time by Naxos in 2009 (Martinů: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 7 – A Fairy-Tale of Goldilocks, From Andersen's Fairy-Tales; Giorgio Koukl).

Mark Gresham and Cary Lewis, Martinů: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 7 – A Fairy-Tale of Goldilocks, From Andersen's Fairy-Tales; Giorgio Koukl).

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