The Concertino for
piano
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, two
violin
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s,
viola
; german: Bratsche
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clarinet,
French horn
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and
bassoon is a composition by the
Czech
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composer
Leoš Janáček
Leoš Janáček (, baptised Leo Eugen Janáček; 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist, and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic musics, including Eastern European ...
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Background
The composition was written in first months of 1925, but Janáček decided on its inception in the end of 1924. He was impressed by the skills of pianist Jan Heřman, and therefore he dedicated the composition to him. (The first printing by ''Hudební matice'' from 1926 bears the dedication: "To Jan Heřman"). The concertino was at first intended to be a piano concerto, but later grew into a small
chamber concerto
Concerto da camera, or in English chamber concerto, originally was one of the two types of concerto grosso, the other being the ''concerto da chiesa'' ("church concert"). The concerto da camera had the character of a suite, being introduced by a ...
. It was first entitled "Spring".
[Score, p. XI] This title Janáček wrote into the