{"id":1704,"date":"2011-04-06T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info-libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2023-07-19T18:47:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T18:47:58","slug":"1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/04\/06\/1950\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 90 – 1950: Trio in D Minor (Original Manuscript Sketches) by Bohuslav Martin\u016f"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Premiered: Cambridge, Mass., 1950<\/p>\n

Czech-born composer Bohuslav Martin\u016f was commissioned to write his D Minor Piano Trio for the dedication of the Charles Hayden Memorial Library at MIT. He composed the piece in New York, where he resided for twelve years after the Nazi invasion forced him to flee Paris in 1941.<\/p>\n

The Hayden Library dedication took place on May 19, 1950, a Friday afternoon. During the festivities, the trio received its world premiere in a performance by MIT professors Klaus Liepmann (violin) and Gregory Tucker (piano), with George Finckel of Bennington College on cello. Tea was then served in Hayden’s handsome courtyard.
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\nMIT owns sketches of the piano trio in Martin\u016f\u2019s hand, dated February 26, 1950, as well the published version of the score, which carries the simple epigraph, \u201c\u00e0 MIT Cambridge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is the music any good? Yes indeed: it\u2019s one of the strongest works of the composer\u2019s later years. The trio\u2019s second movement has been noted for its warm intimacy, while critics have characterized the third movement as \u201cpropulsive\u201d and called it a \u201cfiery finale.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The piece is rightly placed among Martin\u016f\u2019s neoclassical compositions. But biographer Brian Large seems to have read too much into Martin\u016f\u2019s music, even as he misread the name of MIT\u2019s new library. In his 1976 volume on the composer, Large wrote: \u201cThe spirit of Haydn\u2019s music \u2026 pervades the Piano Trio No. 2, written to celebrate the opening of the Haydn Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u201d Oops.<\/p>\n

Then again, maybe the spirits of both Haydn and<\/em> Hayden pervade the trio.<\/p>\n

Listen to the opening of the third movement. <\/a><\/p>\n

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Find it in the library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Premiered: Cambridge, Mass., 1950 Czech-born composer Bohuslav Martin\u016f was commissioned to write his D Minor Piano Trio for the dedication of the Charles Hayden Memorial Library at MIT. He composed the piece in New York, where he resided for twelve years after the Nazi invasion forced him to flee Paris in 1941. The Hayden Library dedication took place on May 19, 1950, a Friday afternoon. During the festivities, the trio received its world premiere in a performance by MIT professors Klaus Liepmann (violin) and Gregory Tucker (piano), with George Finckel of Bennington College on cello. Tea was then served in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4383,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/4383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}