General information
Title CZNokturno (Růže v noci)
Subtitle CZsymfonický tanec č. 2
Title ENNocturne (Roses in the Night)
Subtitle ENsymphonic dance No. 2
Title DENokturne (Die Rosen in der Nacht)
Subtitle DEsymphonischer Tanz Nr. 2
CategoryOrchestral Music
SubcategoryWorks for Large Orchestra
Halbreich number96
Origin
Place of compositionPolička
Year of origin1915
Initiation of composition1915
Completion of composition1915
First performance
Autograph deposition
Note on the autograph depostitionAutograph missing. Only the title-page is held by the Moravian Museum in Brno.
Copyright
Note on copyrightCopyright free
First edition
Sources
References Related writings
Documents in the Library
About the composition

Only the title page has survived from the composition for large orchestra named Nocturno (Roses in the Night), H 96, subtitled Symphonic Dance No. 2. Nocturno has the same title as the second poem from the cycle Les Chansons de Bilitis (1894), Roses Dans la Nuit, by the French poet and writer Pierre Louÿs (1870–1925). The title page of the work contains the Czech text of this poem written in Martinů's hand. The collection was published in translation by Jaroslav Pasovský as Písně Bilitiny in 1910 in Prague by František Adámek.

Between 1897 and 1898 Claude Debussy also composed a song cycle of the same name to the texts of Les Chansons de Bilitis.

Jana Burdová, 2024

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