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Title CZŠpalíček [auth.], 1. verze
Subtitle CZbalet se zpěvem o 3 dějstvích
Title ENThe Chap-Book, 1st version
Subtitle ENballet with singing in 3 acts
Title DEŠpalíček, 1. Version
Subtitle DEBallett mit Gesang in drei Aufzügen
CategoryStage Works and Film Music
SubcategoryBallets
Halbreich number214 I
Author of lyrics/libretto - Lidový text, Folk lyrics
Martinů, Bohuslav
Parts of the composition (movements)1st ACT: Overture; Prolog. Tableau I: Kohoutek a slepička. Tableau II: Pohádka o kocourovi v botách; Tanec se zajícem; Pečení zajíce; Příchod krále a jeho průvodu; U černokněžníka. Tableau III: Hra na pannu; Hra na hastrmana. Tableau IV: Pohádka o kouzelné mošně.
2nd ACT: Overture. Tableau I: Vynášení smrti. Tableau II: Pohádka o Popelce. Tableau III: Česká svatba.
3rd ACT: [Tableau I:] Legenda o sv. Dorotě; [Tableau II: Svatební košile, H. 214 I A].
Durata140'
Instruments2222-2220-Timp-Batt-Pf-Archi; Coro femminile (nebo/or Coro voci bianche)
Solo voiceS T B
Origin
Place of compositionParis
Year of origin1932
Initiation of composition20.01.1931
Completion of composition11.02.1932
First performance
Performer Charvát, Josef
Gottlieb, Josef Matěj
Jenčík, Joe
Date of the first performance19.09.1933
Location of the first performancePrague, National Theatre
Note on the first performanceJosef Charvát (cond.); Joe (Josef) Jenčík (choreography, director); Josef Matěj Gottlieb (scene)
Ensemble Národní divadlo v Praze
Autograph deposition
Owner of the sourceČeské muzeum hudby
Note on the autograph depostitionAutograph score of the first and the second act. Autograph piano reduction of the 1st act also held by the Czech Museum of Music in Prague.
Autograph piano reduction of the 2nd act held by a private owner in Switzerland.
Autograph score of the St. Dorota Legend (with the autograph of the 2nd version of the Chap-Book, PBM Ac 137) and piano reduction by a foreign hand (Ladislav Urban) are located at the Bohuslav Martinů Centre in Polička.
Autograph deposition 2
InstitutionPaul Sacher Stiftung
DepositionBasel
OwnerPaul Sacher Stiftung
Note on the autograph depostitionSecond autograph score of the St. Dorota Legend.
Copyright
CopyrightDilia – Divadelní a literární agentura
First edition
Note on first editionNot published
Sources
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Note First version of Špalíček.
Second version was composed 8 years later, see H 214 II.
Lyrics (Czech) by Bohuslav Martinů after the folk legends, fairy tales, songs and rhymes.
The Spectre´s Bride, H 214 I A, was formerly inclued in the third act. It's the only "part" of the first version of Špalíček which was published (Dilia, Prague 2004).
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