Zur frühen Rezeption des Klavierkonzertes Nr. 4 „Incantation“ von Bohuslav Martinů

• Authors: Jana Hřebíková

Title variants

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ON THE EARLY RECEPTION OF THE PIANO CONCERTO NO. 4 „INCANTATION“ BY BOHUSLAV MARTINU

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

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Bohuslav Martinů’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 (1956) has several special features: the work stands apart from Martinů’s other concertante works by consisting of only two movements, by its title „Incantations“, and by its free form and highly exalted mood, full of fantastic shimmering timbres and eruptive changes. The reviewers’ first response was, however, negative. On one hand, they praised its ingenuity, brilliant instrumentation and imaginative virtuosity; on the other, they dismissed the composition as eclectic and lacking formal homogeneity – their valuation was based on conventional formal and structural criteria.

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Hudební věda (Musicology)
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 407-414

Contributors

author

Jana Hřebíková

• Hudební věda, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Puškinovo nám. 9, 160 00 Praha 6, Czech Republic