General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationParis
Send date18.01.1929
RecipientHoffmann, Camill
Recipient (corporation)
LanguageCzech
AcquiredDeutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
Owner of the sourceDeutches Literaturarchiv Marbach
Former call number at IBM71/1
Call number at IBMHof 1929-01-18
Content and physical description
ContentAccording to Šafránek, Hoffmann is interested in translating the libretto (Three Wishes), and BM would accept the collaboration with the greatest pleasure; he sends a piano excerpt with the text; it would be an "adaptation", in which it is possible "to preserve a certain freedom of translation by adding or removing notes of the vocal part", except for the places "which are unchangeable in their rhythmic element, but there are not many of them"; the translation will certainly be very difficult; the changes in the vocal part must be written out in red ink; the piano extract is only indicative, 'I would only make a definitive adaptation with the German text'; he asks Hoffmann to give the piano extract to Heinrich Burkard for inspection, who has offered BM 'certain possibilities of performing the opera'; he appends a list of works performed in Germany: two premieres "Quartett and Duo", works at the Baden-Baden Festival, works in the repertoire of the Hindemith Quartet, premieres both "here" and in America in Boston (The Tempest), further information can be provided by Burkard; with II. Actions he wants to be finished in March, wants to have the "whole work" completed by the holidays so that he can place it on the stage; Hoffmann is to communicate his decision and conditions; address BM and H. Burkard.
Total number of leaves2
Number of pages bearing text2
Fixationhandwriting
Digitisation The document is not digitized. Hard copy available in Bohuslav Martinů Institute library.
Person as subject
Burkard, Heinrich
Šafránek, Miloš
Corporation as subject
Amar Quartett
Composition as subject
Duo for Violin and Violoncello No. 1, H 157
Jazz Suite, H 172
La Bagarre (The Tumult), H 155
String Quartet No. 2, H 150
Three Wishes or Life’s Vicissitudes, H 175
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