General information
Title CZJuliette (Snář)
Subtitle CZdruhé dějství, 3. scéna
Title ENJuliette (The Key to Dreams)
Subtitle EN2nd act, 3rd scene
Title DEJuliette
Subtitle DEAkt 2, 3. Auftritt
Title FRJuliette (La clé des songes)
CategoryWorks for Keyboards
SubcategoryPiano
Halbreich number253 C
Parts of the composition (movements)Moderato
Durata3'
InstrumentsPf
Note on the dedicationDedicated to Rudolf Firkušný.
Origin
Year of origin1937
First performance
Performer Firkušný, Rudolf
Date of the first performance06.02.1939
Location of the first performancePrague, concert of Czech Chamber Music Society
Note on the first performanceSee Lidové noviny 47, no. 70 (8 Feb 1939, morning edition), p. 7 and Národní listy 70, no. 40 (9 Feb 1939), p. 3.
Ensemble Český spolek pro komorní hudbu
Autograph deposition
Note on the autograph depostitionThe autograph apparently never came into existence
Copyright
Note on copyrightCopyright free
First edition
Note on first editionNot published
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About the composition

An excerpt from an opera that Rudolf Firkušný used to perform at his recitals. In the booklet of the CD of Martinů's piano pieces recorded for the RCA label in June 1988, his recollection of how this piece came into his repertoire was published:

Julietta is a dreamy scene from his opera – a dialogue between two old people and a souvenir vendor, with only piano accompaniment. When I heard the premiere of the opera in Prague (March 16, 1938) I was so deeply affected by this particular scene that I asked Martinů’s permission to perform it as a solo piano piece, to which he gladly agreed. As war refugees in New York three years later, where we had arrived practically empty-handed, I often played Julietta for him from memory (neither of us had the score), and I know how much this work meant to him.”

Rudolf Firkušný. Piano Sonata No.1 (Les Ritournelles / Fantaisie Et Toccata). RCA Victor Red Seal, 1989.

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