General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderAnsermet, Ernest
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationGeneva
Send date10.12.1947
RecipientMartinů, Bohuslav
Recipient (corporation)
LanguageFrench
Acquiredcopy from CBM
Owner of the sourceCentrum Bohuslava Martinů v Poličce
Former call number at IBM65/5
Call number at IBMAns 1947-12-10
Content and physical description
Content- the writer informs the addressee that, after performing his Fifth Symphony in Geneva, he directed its performance at the BBC in London on 23 October , where it met with great success - quite as much as in Geneva - , especially with English musicians (Walton, Dent etc.) (...) ;
- the writer says that he will further perform this symphony in Strasbourg on 17 December, and then take the orchestral material with him to the United States, as requested by the addressee (...) ;
- the writer asks the addressee how to settle the question of payment of the rent (...);
- the writer says that he is very fond of this work and that it is a work which is popular with a wide audience (...) ; the writer thinks that the finale in particular is very impressive (...)
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Fixationhandwriting
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationProfessional
Digitized atBohuslav Martinu Center

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Location as subject
Strasbourg
Geneva
Composition as subject
Symphony No. 5 [auth.], H 310
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