General information
Title CZKoncert pro klavír a orchestr č. 2
Title ENConcerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2
Title DEKonzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 2
Title FRConcerto pour piano et orchestre n° 2
CategoryConcertos
SubcategoryPiano Concertos
Halbreich number237
Parts of the composition (movements)1. Allegro moderato; 2. Poco andante; 3. Poco allegro
Durata23´
Instruments3222-4230-Timp-Batt-Archi
Solo voicePf
Dedicatee Leroux, Germaine
Diplomatic transcription of the dedicationA | Germaine Leroux-Šafránek
Origin
Place of compositionParis
Place of composition 2Malakoff
Year of origin1934
Initiation of composition07/1934
Completion of composition31.12.1934
Last modification of the composition12/1944
First performance
Performer Firkušný, Rudolf
Talich, Václav
Date of the first performance13.11.1935
Location of the first performancePrague
Note on the first performanceRudolf Firkušný (Pf), Václav Talich (cond.)
Ensemble Česká filharmonie (Czech Philharmonic)
Česká filharmonie
Autograph deposition
Owner of the sourceCentrum Bohuslava Martinů v Poličce
Note on the autograph depostitionAutograph score (first version, 1934). Autograph piano part (1st movement), facsimile of the autograph score (2nd version), piano reduction by foreign hand with Martinů's markings and parts by foreign hand with Martinů's markings (1st version) also held by the Bohuslav Martinů Centre in Polička.
Draft (20 pages) and 7 pages of fragmentary autograph piano reduction of the 2nd movement located at the Czech Museum of Music.
Copies by the score and performing materials (1st version) and the score (2nd version), both by foreign hand, located at the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel.
Autograph deposition 2
Owner of the sourceNadace Bohuslava Martinů
DepositionCentrum Bohuslava Martinů v Poličce
Note on the autograph depostitionAutograph of the second version of the Concerto on the transparent paper.
Copyright
CopyrightSchott Music GmbH & Co.
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First edition
PublisherČeský hudební fond
Place of issuePraha
Year of publication1960
Editions available at the BM Institute
Panton, Prague, 1960
Call number at the BM Institute: 1159, 1159a,c
Specification of the edition: 1st edition - piano reduction
Details of this edition
Český hudební fond, Prague, 1960
Call number at the BM Institute: 1159b
Specification of the edition: 1st edition - large score
Details of this edition
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Note Two versions exist, the 2nd with a new orchestration.
Title on the title page of the autograph score of the 1st version (1934): "Concerto | pour piano | et l'orchestre."; note at the end of the score: "Paris. | Noël | 31. Decembre 1934.".
Title on the 1st page of the autograph of the 2nd version (1944): "Piano-Concert N[o] 2."; note at the end of the score: "Paris. Noël 1934. (Reorchestré Noel [sic!] 1944.)".
About the composition

The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2, H 237 was composed in 1934 during Martinů’s Parisian period. This concerto had its premiere in Prague with the Czech Philharmonic, but with Rudolf Firkušný as pianist and Václav Talich conducting. This second concerto seems to take itself seriously. There is an earnest quality that immediately engages the listeners with Martinů’s own personal language. Much of the music here seems to be an unabashedly romantic homage to Brahms, including what amounts to a direct quotation of that master’s famous double concerto for violin and cello, with very satisfying results.

Mark Gresham, Cary Lewis, Martinů: Piano Concertos 2, Naxos 2010.

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