Martinů

American  

[mahr-tyi-noo] / ˈmɑr tyɪˌnu /

noun

1. Bohuslav 1890–1959, Czech composer.

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Martinů British  

/ ˈmɑːtɪˌnuː, ˈmartjinuː /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Justin Peck, NYCB’s resident choreographer and artistic adviser, provided the run with the company premiere of “Heatscape,” his 29-minute ballet for 17 dancers to Bohuslav Martinů’s “Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra,” originally created for Miami City Ballet in 2015.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From 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.

From 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.

From 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.

From The Guardian