General information
Title CZDechový kvintet
Subtitle CZpro flétnu, hoboj, klarinet, fagot a lesní roh
Title ENWind Quintet
Subtitle ENfor flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn
Title DEBläserquintett
Subtitle DEfür Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette, Horn und Fagott
CategoryChamber Music
SubcategoryQuintets
Halbreich number187
InstrumentsFl Ob Cl Fg Cor
Origin
Place of compositionParis
Year of origin1930
Initiation of composition1930
Completion of composition1930
First performance
Autograph deposition
Note on the autograph depostitionAutograph missing.
Autograph score had been owned by Miloš Šafránek until 1960s, when he sold it to a secondhand bookshop in Prague (without making a copy).
Copyright
Note on copyrightCopyright free
First edition
Note on first editionNot published
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About the composition

This piece is Martinů’s only composition for a standard wind quintet, written in Paris in 1930. The piece is currently missing. Harry Halbreich describes this loss as the most significant in Martinů's entire catalog of compositions. The autograph score was in the possession of Miloš Šafránek until the 1960s, but then he sold it to an unknown antiquarian bookstore in Prague without making a copy.

Harry Halbreich, Bohuslav Martinů: Werkverzeichnis und Biografie, Mainz: Schott Music, 2007, p. 373–374.

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