General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationParis
Send date25.05.1937
RecipientTalich, Václav
Recipient (corporation)
Note on Recipient‘s location[Prague?]
LanguageCzech
AcquiredHandwritten letter from Muzeum Českého krasu, Beroun; typescript from J. K. Procházka papers, 2016
Owner of the sourceMuzeum Českého krasu
Owner‘s call numberT 3506
Former call number at IBM57/A/17, VAR 071
Call number at IBMTal 1937-05-25
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů encloses with the letter his notes on JULIETTA, which mainly concern the doubling of roles. He congratulates her on the success of "Liška" [The Cunning Little Vixen], looks forward to hearing her in Paris and to meeting Václav Talich. He would like VT to take up his INVENTIONS together with the Czech Philharmonic. VT is to inform the [National Theatre] directorate that he (BM) has collected the score of THE SPALICE from Belgrade. Following are two pages of notes on Juliette.
Number of pages bearing text1 + 2 + 4
FixationHandwriting, typescript
AttachmentsHandwritten notes on the opera Juliette (2 pp.) are attached to the handwritten letter (1 p.). Both documents have been typescribed by J. K. Procházka (4 pages) with two notes with details on doubling of the roles at the premiere of the work
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional black-and-white
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Location as subject
Belgrade
Paris
Person as subject
Honzl, Jindřich
Procházka, Jaroslav Karel
Šafránek, Miloš
Zlesák, Antonín
Corporation as subject
Česká filharmonie
Composition as subject
Inventions [auth.], H 234
Juliette (The Key to Dreams), H 253
The Chap-Book, 1st version, H 214 I
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