Martinů

[mahr-tyi-noo]

noun

1. Bohuslav 1890–1959, Czech composer.

Martinů

/ ˈmɑːtɪˌnuː, ˈmartjinuː /

noun

1. Bohuslav (ˈbɔhuslaf). 1890–1959, Czech composer

Example Sentences

Bohuslav Martinů’s first cello sonata, also in D minor, felt like a twin for the Shostakovich piece, driven to a fast and furious ending in the parallel major.

Read more on Washington Post

The young Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta was sinewy and sonorous in Martinů’s First Concerto—one of three concerto performances with Leonard Slatkin and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Read more on The New Yorker

That same day, Laurence Lesser, a Piatigorsky pupil who serves as the cello sage at the New England Conservatory, advised Annie Jacobs-Perkins, another Kirshbaum protégée, on Martinů’s Second Sonata.

Read more on The New Yorker

His discography also includes a wide range of chamber and vocal repertoire of the early periods, as well as neoclassical music by such composers as Martinů, Stravinsky, Britten, Copland, Tippett and Honegger.

Read more on The Guardian

The second half was devoted to two works with a close kinship – Martinů's Double Concerto for two string orchestras, piano and timpani was unashamedly modelled on Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, and both were commissioned by Paul Sacher for his Basel Chamber Orchestra.

Read more on The Guardian