Martin Smolka
Martin Smolka is a contemporary Czech composer of classical music.
Works
;1983- Slzy
;1988
- Music for Retuned Instruments
- Zvonění for solo percussion.
- Nocturne
- L’Orch pour l’orch;
- Netopýr ;
- Rain, a Window, Roofs, Chimneys, Pigeons and so... and Railway-Bridges, too
- Trzy motywy pastoralne.
- Rent a Ricercar
;1996-1997
- : Lullaby
- 8 pieces for guitar quartet.
- Autumn Thoughts for ensemble.
- Lieder ohne Worte und Passacaglia.
- Nešť for orchestra.
- Like Those Nicéan Barks of Yore for trombone and life electronics.
- Blue Note
- Walden, the Distiller of Celestial Dews
- Remix, Redream, Reflight;
- Houby a nebe, Czech text Petr Pavel Fiala and Martin Smolka.
- Geigenlieder, German text Christian Morgenstern and Bertolt Brecht;
- Nagano - Opera, libretto Jaroslav Dušek and Martin Smolka.
- Observing the Clouds
- Missa
- Ach, mé milé c moll.
- Solitudo;
- Tesknice
- Hats in the Sky
- For a Buck
- Das schlaue Gretchen opera for children, libretto Klaus Angermann;
- Lamento metodico;
- Słone i smutne, Polish text Tadeusz Różewicz;
- Semplice
- fff for saxophone, piano and percussion - written for Trio Accanto.
Discography
- Hudba hudbička, ensemble AGON, Arta Records, Prague 1991
- Music for Retuned Instruments, ensemble recherche, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 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 - conductor, Donaueschinger Musiktage 2000
- fff , Trio Accanto, Wergo