Three Sonatas for Flute and Piano three great composers of the twentieth century, very well interpreted

Bohuslav Martinů was born in 1890 in Policka, Bohemia (Austria-Hungary). Young, he entered the Prague Conservatory, but it is twice returned. He continued his way by himself, committed to the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra as second violin. His meeting with the composer and violinist Josef Suk (1874-1935) will forever mark their lives. After the independence of the Czechoslovak State, Martinu went to Paris where he became the disciple of Albert Roussel (1869-1937), met Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), and belonged to the "Ecole de Paris", the side of Alexander Spitzmüller (1894-1962), Alexander Tansman (1897-1986), Tibor Harsányi (1898-1954), Marcel Mihalovici (1898-1985), Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977), of Conrad Beck (1901-1989) and Igor Markevitch (1912-1983). Following the German occupation, he spent in the free zone in 1940, then moved to the United States. At the end of the war, he will be based in France and Switzerland. He died in 1959 in Liestal (Switzerland). He was buried in 1979 in Policka, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic).

Martinu left more than four hundred works, including an extensive literature for piano, including "Spalicek", the "Puppets", the "Miniatures", the "Preludes", the "Studies and polkas," "Fantasia and Toccata" four "Dumkas" and a Sonata for piano, Sonata for Viola, Sonata for Flute, Clarinet Sonata, Sonata for trumpet, five sonatas for violin and piano, three sonatas for cello and piano, two Duos for Violin and Cello Two String Trios Three Piano Trio seven quartets codes, a Quartet for oboe, string quintet, three piano quintets, a sextet, septet and a two Nonets, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, Concerto for oboe, two concertos for two pianos, a Concerto for flute and violin, a Double Concerto for strings, piano and timpani, a Triple Concerto for violin, cello and piano, Rhapsody-Concerto for viola, several large orchestral frescoes, "Memorial to Lidice," the "Frescoes of Piero della Francesca" and "Parables," six Symphonies, Operas, including "Juliette or the key of dreams", "Mirandolina", "The Greek Passion "and" Ariane ", and more than one hundred fifty melodies.

Paul Hindemith was born in 1895 in Hanau, Frankfurt am Main (Germany). He studied at the Conservatory of Frankfurt, where he had as teachers in particular Arnold Mendelssohn (1855-1933) and Bernhard Sekles (1872-1934), and played the violin at the Frankfurt Opera from 1915 to 1923. From 1921 to 1929 he was violist of the Amar Quartet, where he actively campaigned in favor of the music of Vanguard. In 1927 he was appointed professor of composition at the conservatory in Berlin, but emigrated to Switzerland in 1938 because of his opposition to Nazism and because his wife was Jewish. He then moved to the United States, where he taught composition from 1940 to 1953 at the Yale University. He obtained American citizenship in 1948, but returned a few years later in Europe and settled in Switzerland, where he was the holder of the Zurich University in musicology chair from 1951 to 1953. In particular, he had as Walter Leigh students (1905-1942), Willson Osborne (1906-1979), Arnold Cooke (1906-2005), Harald Genzmer (1909-2007), Bernhard Heiden (1910-2000), Oskar Sala (1910-2002), Josef Tal (1910 -2008), Alvin Etler (1913-1973), Violet Archer (1913-2000), Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008), Alan Shulman (915-2002), Ulysses Kay (1917-1995), Harold Shapero (born 1920), Irwin Bazelon (1922-1995), Lukas Foss (1922-2009), Mel Powell (1923-1998), Ruth Schönthal (1924-2006), Charles Lemon Bestor (born 1924), Hans Otte (1926-2007 ), Emma Lou Diemer (born 1927), Mitch Leigh (born in 1928), Andrew Hill (1931-2007), and Easley Blackwood (born 1933). Hindemith uses a musical system of its own, centered on a tonic that evolves from a tonal center to another depending on modulations, but where the twelve notes of the scale are arranged in patterns, but in particular relations between them that are functions of more or less consonant or dissonant intervals between them. Paul Hindemith died in 1963 in Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of Germany.

Among the major works of Hindemith, one can note "Ludus tonalis" for piano, three sonatas for solo violin, four sonatas for solo viola, a Sonata for solo cello, four sonatas for violin and piano, three sonatas for viola and piano, two Sonatas for cello and piano, Sonata for piano and bass, ten sonatas for wind instruments and piano, two string trios, seven string quartets, a septet for winds, an Octet for winds and strings, "Theme and variations: the Four Temperaments "for string orchestra and piano, Viola Concerto" Der Schwanendreher ", a Cello Concerto, the" Konzertmusik "for string orchestra and brass, a Concerto for Orchestra, the" Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber "and" Trauermusik "for orchestra, four symphonies, including" Mathis der Maler "," Serena "and" Die Harmonie der Welt "ballet music" Nobilissima Visione "five operas, including" Cardillac "," Mathis the painter "and" Die Harmonie der Welt "Requiem" When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd "chaeur a Mass for mixed a cappella, or even" Das Marienleben "on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.