General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationSchönenberg, Pratteln
Send date12.02.1958
RecipientMunch, Charles
Recipient (corporation)
Note on Recipient‘s location[Boston, Massachusetts]
LanguageFrench
Acquiredfrom J. Mihule
Owner of the source- Soukromý vlastník, Private owner
Former call number at IBM10/8
Call number at IBMMun 1958-02-12
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů announces that he has completed Parabolas, which he will immediately send to Boston to Charles Munch. He hopes he will like the piece. He asks him for a check for $1,000 to pay his income tax. He has not received a reply to his previous letter, so he asks the publisher for operating rights for two years. He asks when he will need sheet music for the orchestra and if he is able to conduct from a copy of the manuscript (he has difficulty with his right hand - hence the apparently poor legibility). She recommends him a successful oratorio, EPOS ON GILGAMES, which he could perform in Berkshire. If he is interested, he will send him the score, which is in English. He is also interested to know if he will be going to Prague this year. BM would love to visit his siblings who are now of an advanced age. They are now staying with friends of the Sachers.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Notetranscript of the letter was published by Geneviève Honegger in book Charles Munch: un chef d´orchestre dans le siécle, La nuée bleue, Strasbourg, 1992, pg. 287-288
Fixationtypewriting, handwritten signature
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional black-and-white
Digitized atBNU Strasbourg

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Location as subject
Berkshire, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts
Prague
Person as subject
Martinů, Marie
Martinů, Marie
Martinů, Charlotte
Martinů, František (bratr)
Sacher, Maja
Sacher, Paul
Corporation as subject
Universal Edition
Composition as subject
The Epic of Gilgamesh [auth.], H 351
The Parables [auth.], H 367
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