Czech Chamber Music Society ⬩ Trio Wanderer

The Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů spent more than half his life beyond the borders of his homeland. It may have been for this very reason that felt such a strong bond to the Czech school of composition. In 1945 in New York, recalling earlier years, he noted in his diary: “What I went to France to find was not Debussy or Impressionism or even musical expression, but rather the real foundations on which Western culture rests […] The Czech elements I brought along to France were not destroyed. Instead, they were supported and augmented by awareness and were put into organic order, which (I think I am not mistaken) is merely following the line begun by Smetana and Dvořák.”