General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationRome
Note on Sender‘s location[Roma]
Send date28.11.1956
RecipientRybka, Frank
Recipient (corporation)
LanguageCzech
Acquiredcopy from F. James Rybka, 01/1998
Owner of the sourceCentrum Bohuslava Martinů v Poličce
Owner‘s call numberPBM K fr 1293
Former call number at IBM8/76
Call number at IBMRyb 1956-11-28
Content and physical description
ContentBM's last letter to Frank apparently never arrived. BM wrote back to him immediately after receiving the news of the concert, briefly reproducing what he wrote. He returns to the election and reflects on the political situation (also in several places in the letter). He reports that Diviš has died, he was surprised and saddened by this. Describes the weather and his work - he has plenty of time to devote to composition (operas). He has also written a cantata to a text by Bures, but will probably not send it home because of the situation there. He has a painful hand. He wonders if Frank is an old man now. The Times has written to him about what he's doing, that they've heard there's interest in him at home. BM answered them rather cautiously. Jan Novak and Bakala also wrote to him, they said they were showing his 3rd symphony in Warsaw. He had heard Janáček play the organ (he was there - in Rome?), he liked him.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Fixationtypewriting, handwritten markings
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional black-and-white
Date of digitisation1998
Note on digitisationcopy from F. James Rybka

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Location as subject
Warsaw
Person as subject
Bakala, Břetislav
Bureš, Miloslav
Diviš, Alén
Eisenhower, Dwight David
Firkušný, Rudolf
Janáček, Leoš
Ježková, Frances
Martinů, Charlotte
Novák, Jan
Parmenter, Ross
Pečírka, Jaromír
Corporation as subject
American Academy in Rome
Česká filharmonie
Composition as subject
The Legend of the Smoke from Potato Tops, H 360
Symphony No. 3 [auth.], H 299
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