General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderŠafránek, Miloš
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationPrague
Send date11.09.1959
RecipientSacher, Maja
Recipient (corporation)
Note on Recipient‘s location[?]
LanguageFrench
Language 2Czech
Former call number at IBM72/1
Call number at IBMSac 1959-09-11
Content and physical description
ContentMiloš Šafránek learned of the death of Bohuslav Martinů. He expresses his condolences to Maja and Paul Sacher and thanks them for their generosity and kindness to the composer for more than twenty years. Despite all the efforts of the MŠ, he could no longer come to Schönenberg to visit BM.
He is just finishing a book about BM. It is a version that BM himself saw and corrected, and which has been rewritten in recent months according to his recommendations and comments. MŠ is perfectly familiar with BM's major works written in Schönenberg, thanks to MS and PS: these are the works DVOJKONCERT, CONCERTO DA CAMERA, TOCCATA E DUE CANZONI, SINFONIA CONCERTANTE and EPOS ON GILGAMES. He regrets not having had the opportunity to see the places where BM worked so much and where he spent several happy years of his life.
Particularly for the purposes of the biography, he asks for accurate accounts of BM's surgery and illness and the end of his life. He also misses photographs of BM from the period after his stay in Nice in 1955. He also asks for interesting facts about the end of his life, such as the way he wrote for the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the books he read, and his notes.
Total number of leaves2+1
Number of pages bearing text3+1
Fixationhandwriting
Attachmentscopy of the posting form attached
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional black-and-white
Digitized atBohuslav Martinů Institute
Date of digitisation2017

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Location as subject
Nice
Schönenberg, Pratteln
Person as subject
Martinů, Bohuslav
Sacher, Paul
Corporation as subject
Basler Kammerorchester
Composition as subject
Concerto da Camera, H 285
Double Concerto, H 271
The Epic of Gilgamesh [auth.], H 351
Sinfonia Concertante [auth.] No. 2, H 322
Toccata e due canzoni, H 311
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