General information
Title CZJaškova zpěvánka [auth.]
Title ENJašek’s Song
Title DEJašek’s Lied
CategoryVocal Music
SubcategoryWorks for Solo Voice and Piano
Halbreich number37
Author of lyrics/libretto Przerwa-Tetmajer, Kazimierz
InstrumentsV Pf
Origin
Place of compositionPrague
Year of origin1912
Initiation of composition1912
Completion of composition01.03.1912
First performance
Autograph deposition
Owner of the sourceNadace Bohuslava Martinů
DepositionCentrum Bohuslava Martinů v Poličce
Copyright
Note on copyrightCopyright free
First edition
Sources
References Related writings
Documents in the Library
Note The date inscribed (in another hand?) at the end of the autograph score: 01.03.1912.
“Jašek’s Song” is identical to “I am Striding, Striding between the Hills” (“Kráčím, kráčím mezi vrchy”; former Halbreich number H 74bis – cancelled).
About the composition

In 1912, Martinů set three songs to the texts of the Polish poet Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865–1940). To Jašek’s Song, H 37, probably from the beginning of March, two more were added during the summer holidays spent in his native Polička: Marry Me, Mother, H 53, and Keep Talking to Me, H 66. It was not the first encounter of Martinů with this author – his early symphonic poem for large orchestra, The Angel of Death, H 17, from 1910, was based on the 1898 novel written by Przerwa-Tetmajer.

The recording of Jašek’s Song was released for the first time by Naxos in 2018 (Martinů: Songs, Vol. 5 – Saltimbanques; Jana Hrochová, Giorgio Koukl).

Jana Burdová, 2024

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