General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderNeveux, Georges
Sender (corporation)
RecipientMartinů, Bohuslav
Recipient (corporation)
LanguageFrench
AcquiredCBM
Owner of the sourceCentrum Bohuslava Martinů v Poličce
Former call number at IBM20/17
Call number at IBMNev 0000-00-00a
Content and physical description
ContentThis is a text where GN recalls his collaboration with Martinů, their first meeting at Šafránek's. Before that, Milhaud had told him about BM as a great composer. He describes his appearance, his Slavicness. He tells about the course of BM's work on Juliet. He writes about another meeting with him: towards the end of 1940 they met in Aix-en-Provence, and even though BM was filled with wartime worries, he composed a lullaby for his newborn daughter. BM also collaborated with him on the opera Ariadne. Here GN quotes a letter from BM in which he states that he 'made an oratorio out of the play The Way of Theseus'.
Total number of leaves2
Number of pages bearing text2
FixationTypescript, handwritten inscriptions
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
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Person as subject
Martinů, Bohuslav
Martinů, Charlotte
Milhaud, Darius
Šafránek, Miloš
Weill, Kurt
Composition as subject
Ariadne, H 370
Juliette (The Key to Dreams), H 253
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