In 1930, this composer produced a ballet entitled Checkmating the King.
In 1930, this composer produced a ballet entitled Checkmating the King. His experience nursing a bird back to health during a stay in Cape Cod provided the inspiration for the third movement of a work he composed for George Laurent of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his 1945 Flute Sonata. He composed a four-part cycle of cantatas, including The Opening of the Wells, based on his native highlands, and he wrote a one-act jazz ballet about kitchen utensils entitled La Revue de Cuisine. This composer's well-known works include a Rhapsody-Concerto for viola and orchestra and his sixth and final symphony, which is titled Symphonic Fantasias. His other works include an orchestral [➤] commemoration of the victims of a 1943 Nazi massacre and a choral work whose third movement is entitled "The Death of Enkidu". For 15 points, identify this Czech composer of Memorial to Lidice and the oratorio The Epic of Gilgamesh.
In 1930, this composer produced a ballet entitled Checkmating the King.
Bohuslav Martinu