Reference to the existence of Romance for violin and piano, H 12, is found only in Bohuslav Martinů's handwritten inventory of his compositions from 1914 (MarBo 1914) and in Karel Novák's 1959 memoir (NovK 1959-00-00).
Martinů used to visit his friend Stanislav Novák and his family in Smiřice (mostly in summer, from about 1906, when he and Stanislav met at the Prague Conservatory, until Martinů left for Paris in 1923). Stanislav's brother Karel recalled in his 1959 memoirs (NovK 1959-00-00) that Martinů also composed in Smiřice, apart from "insertions in masses for his father", a Romance for violin and piano "for the furious violin amateur Vognar".
Jana Burdová, 2024