Romance for Violin and Piano (Martinů)

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Notes

Romance for violin and piano is a short occasional composition by Bohuslav Martinů from May 1930, which its author did not mention in any list of his works. The piece was only found in 2022 by an employee of the Bohuslav Martinů Institute, Mrs. Natália Krátká, in the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. The library provided the Bohuslav Martinů Institute with its digital copy on September 14, 2022. The manuscript is dedicated by the author to Boris Lipnitzki, a French photographer of Ukrainian-Jewish origin. There is also an unproven hypothesis that this is actually a newly created and newly dated author’s copy of his at present missing Romance from 1910.

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