Bohuslav Martinu Institute, "The Epic of Gilgamesh," official work page

The composer's own institute and archive's page for the work. Its strength is direct institutional authority on the composition history and its critical edition, including that Martinu had considered the subject for fourteen years before composing it in a matter of weeks over the 1954 to 1955 New Year, and that he compiled the libretto himself from the ancient text. Its limit is that it is the composer's own institute rather than independent musicological criticism, so it is cited here for the compositional record rather than for outside critical assessment.