"The "Czech" Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano was written in 1983. It was conceived as homage to Czech clarinet music, so that there are several quotations or short modified passages from suitable Czech clarinet pieces to be found in the score. The first movement contains extracts from Czech Classical music; the third movement includes sequences of 20th century compositions. In the second movement (in which the medieval form of isorhythm is used) there is no direct quotation. However, its character should resemble that of the second movement of Bohuslav Martinů's Sonatina.
In the year 2007 I wrote a version for alto saxophone and piano. The piano part remains intact with a few slight exceptions. Only in those parts where the saxophone version is transposed by an octave compared to the original clarinet version, the piano part includes the note. The solo part indicated in the piano is the clarinet part. Both the solo instruments (clarinet and saxophone) are provided with separate parts with the proper transposition".
| instrumentation | cl (Asax), pfte |
| description | score, parts |
| publ.No | R 189 |
| price | 115,- CZK |
