Field Mass H 279; The Spectre's Bride H 214 I A / Bohuslav Martinu; ed. by Paul Wingfield. - (The Bohuslav Martinu Complete Edition; VI/2/2)
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University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 2840
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- R - Scholarly edition
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- Title of edition
- Field Mass H 279; The Spectre's Bride H 214 I A / Bohuslav Martinu; ed. by Paul Wingfield. - (The Bohuslav Martinu Complete Edition; VI/2/2)
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- Bärenreiter
- ISBN
- 9790260107922
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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0
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- Martinu/Wingfield
This is the first ever scholarly-critical edition of two important works by Bohuslav Martinů. His 'Field Mass' (1939; biblical/liturgical-inspired text by Jiří Mucha) was created in response to the outbreak of WWII, as a tribute to the Czechoslovak armed forces. It was designed for possible outdoor performance. The cantata 'The Spectre’s Bride' (1932; text by Karel Jaromír Erben) originally formed part of the ballet 'Špalíček' (meaning 'Chapbook'). On revising the ballet, the composer removed the cantata. Martinů fled Paris in 1940, sending the autograph materials to various friends for safe keeping. However, he never had the opportunity to oversee an edition of the Mass or to prepare the Cantata for separate publication. These editions realise those intentions.
These editions are the first to be based on all the known autograph material, which is dispersed between locations in the Czech Republic, Switzerland and USA. Wingfield discovered the original ending of the 'Field Mass' amongst previously unidentified material in the Paul Sacher Stiftung. This discovery enabled presentation of both versions. Wingfield wrote the detailed preface and critical commentary (translated into Czech by Adam Prentis) and prepared English translations of the texts of both works.
Wingfield’s edition of the 'Field Mass' received its premiere (with the original ending performed separately) in Prague on 26 June 2016 under the direction of Jiří Petrdlík; the premiere of the 'Spectre's Bride' edition was performed by the Czech conductor Jiří Rozen in Brno on 23 and 24 November 2016. Jakub Hrůša also conducted the 'Field Mass' on 26 August 2017 at the Proms in a "Hussite"-themed concert.
Bärenreiter issued performing parts of both works and a study score of the 'Field Mass' based on this research; Supraphon released a CD (Cat. no. SU 3276-2) of the 2016 'Field Mass' premiere.
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