Martin Smolka (born 11 August 1959 in

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) is a contemporary

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Works

;1983 * ''Slzy (Tears)''; ;1985-1988 : ''Hudba hudbička'' (''Music Sweet Music'') for ensemble; ;1988 * ''Music for Retuned Instruments''; ;1989 * ''Zvonění'' (''Ringing'') for solo percussion; * ''Nocturne''; ;1990 * ''L’Orch pour l’orch''; ;1990-1992 * ''Netopýr'' (''The Flying Dog''); ;1992 * ''Rain, a Window, Roofs, Chimneys, Pigeons and so... and Railway-Bridges, too''; ;1993 * ''Trzy motywy pastoralne'' (''Three pastoral motifs''); ;1993-1995 * ''Rent a Ricercar''; ;1996 * ''Euforium''; * ''Three pieces for retuned orchestra''; ;1996-1997 * : ''Lullaby''; ;1998 * ''8 pieces for guitar quartet''; * ''Autumn Thoughts'' for ensemble; ;1999 * ''Lieder ohne Worte und Passacaglia''; * ''Nešť'' for orchestra; * ''Like Those Nicéan Barks of Yore'' for trombone and life electronics; ;2000 * ''Blue Note''; * ''Walden, the Distiller of Celestial Dews''; * ''Remix, Redream, Reflight''; * ''Houby a nebe'' (''Mushrooms and Heaven''), Czech text Petr Pavel Fiala and Martin Smolka; ;2001 * ''Geigenlieder'', German text

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and

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a pl ...

; ;2001-2003 * ''Nagano'' -

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and Martin Smolka; * ''Observing the Clouds''; ;2002 * ''Missa''; * ''Ach, mé milé c moll'' (''Oh, my admired C minor''); ;2003 * ''Solitudo''; ;2003-2004 * ''Tesknice'' (''Nostalgia''); ;2004 * ''Hats in the Sky''; * ''For a Buck''; ;2005 * ''Das schlaue Gretchen'' opera for children,

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; ;2006 * ''Lamento metodico''; * ''Słone i smutne'' (''Salt and Sad''), Polish text

Tadeusz Różewicz Tadeusz Różewicz (9 October 1921 – 24 April 2014) was a Polish poet, playwright, writer, and translator. Różewicz was in the first generation of Polish writers born after Poland regained its independence in 1918, following the century of f ...

; * ''Semplice''; ;2010 * ''fff (Fortissimo feroce Fittipaldi)'' for saxophone, piano and percussion - written for

Trio Accanto Trio Accanto is a contemporary piano trio formed of Marcus Weiss (saxophone), Nicolas Hodges (piano) and Christian Dierstein (percussion). It is based in Freiburg, Germany. History Trio Accanto was formed as the result of a discussion between Ma ...

;

Discography

* ''Hudba hudbička'', ensemble AGON, Arta Records, Prague 1991 * ''Music for Retuned Instruments'',

ensemble recherche The ensemble recherche is a German classical music ensemble of nine soloists, especially dedicated to contemporary music. Founded in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1985, they premiered some 500 works. They were awarded the Schneider-Schott Music Prize ...

Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik The Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik (Witten Days for New Chamber Music) is a music festival for contemporary chamber music, jointly organised by the town Witten in the Ruhr Area and the broadcasting station Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). The con ...

1991, WDR Köln 1991 * ''Rain, a Window, Roofs, Chimneys, Pigeons and so... and Railway-Bridges, too'', col legno München/SWF Baden-Baden, Donaueschinger Musiktage 1992 * ''A v sadech korálů, jež slabě zrůžověly'', Petr Matuszek - bariton, Martin Smolka - piano, ''Na prahu světla'', Happy Music, Prague 1996 * ''Rent a Ricercar'', ''Flying Dog'', ''For Woody Allen'', ''Nocturne'', AGON Orchestra, audio ego/Society for New Music Prague, 1997 * ''Euphorium'', ''Rain, a Window, Roofs, Chimneys, Pigeons and so... and Railway-Bridges, too'', ''Music for Retuned Instruments'', ''Ringing'', AGON Orchestra, audio ego/Society for New Music Prague, 1998 * ''Walden, the Distiller of Celestial Dews'', SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Meinhard Jenne – percussion,

Rupert Huber Rupert W.M. Huber (born 1967 in Mödling, Austria) is an Austrian composer and musician. In 1994, Huber founded ''Huber Musik'' to publish his own music, and in the same year, founded Tosca with Richard Dorfmeister. Huber's 2006 release of ''Fu ...

- conductor,

Donaueschinger Musiktage The Donaueschingen Festival (german: Donaueschinger Musiktage, links=no) is a festival for new music that takes place every October in the small town of Donaueschingen in south-western Germany. Founded in 1921, it is considered the oldest festiv ...

2000 * ''fff (Fortissimo feroce Fittipaldi)'',

, Wergo (forthcoming)

External links

* http://www.martinsmolka.com/en/index.html - Homepage
Extensive interview with Martin Smolka in English, on Opera Lively
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