Martin Smolka (born 11 August 1959 in

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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

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; ;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,

Klaus Angermann; ;2006 * ''Lamento metodico''; * ''Słone i smutne'' (''Salt and Sad''), Polish text Tadeusz Różewicz; * ''Semplice'' ;2010 * ''fff (Fortissimo feroce Fittipaldi)'' for saxophone, piano and percussion - written for Trio Accanto.

Discography

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

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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 SWR Vokalensemble is the vocal ensemble of the broadcaster Südwestrundfunk (SWR), based in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1946 as Südfunk-Chor Stuttgart to perform studio work for Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) which merged in 1998 with th ...

Stuttgart, Meinhard Jenne – percussion,

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- conductor,

Donaueschinger Musiktage The Donaueschingen Festival, or more precisely ''Donaueschingen Music Days'' (), is a three-day October event presenting new music in the town of the same name, where the Danube River starts, at the edge of the Black Forest in southern Germany. F ...

2000 * ''fff (Fortissimo feroce Fittipaldi)'', Trio Accanto, Wergo (forthcoming)

External links

* http://www.martinsmolka.com/en/index.html - Homepage * {{DEFAULTSORT:Smolka, Martin 1959 births 20th-century Czech classical composers 21st-century Czech classical composers Czech film score composers Czech male film score composers Living people Microtonal musicians Czech opera composers Czech male opera composers 20th-century Czech male musicians 21st-century Czech male musicians