In his catalogue of Bohuslav Martinů's works, Harry Halbreich catalogued the composition in 1938 under the catalogue number H 267bis (Oh, Come to Me) and linked it to Vítězslava Kaprálová. However, a sketch deposited in the Moravian Museum in Brno, of which Halbreich was unaware at the time of the preparation of the second edition of the catalogue, attests to the composition of the song as early as 1910. Martinů himself gave it the title Psáno do památníku sestřina (Entry into My Sister’s Album, H 17bis) and also mentioned the author of the text – F. Xaver, a pseudonym of the evangelical clergyman and translator František Žilka. The poem depicts a dialogue between the Soul and its sister, Love, which culminates in their mutual death, coupled with the end of love.
A recording of the work was first released by Naxos in 2015 (Martinů: Songs, Vol. 5 – The Rose; Jana Wallingerová, Giorgio Koukl).
Jana Burdová, 2025