General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Note on Sender‘s location[New York]
Send date29.06.1951
RecipientŠebánek, Karel
Recipient (corporation)Orbis
Note on Recipient‘s location[Prague]
LanguageCzech
Acquiredcopy from K. Šebánek's estate, Bohuslav Martinů Centre in Polička
Owner of the sourceCentrum Bohuslava Martinů v Poličce
Former ownerŠebánek, Karel
Owner‘s call numberPBM Kkš 987
Former call number at IBM56/94
Call number at IBMŠeb 1951-06-29
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů has no news about the JULIETTE materials, he wrote to all parties (to Jindřich Honzl, to addresses given to him by Karel Šebánek, to Washington). He also asked for PLAYS ABOUT MARIA. He does not understand why Orbis is not interested. BM can have the materials copied in America, but then no money from the performance will go to Orbis. The postage is to be taken from BM's account with Orbis, the materials packed and sent - nothing more. Even if there are some voices at home against him, they can't stop him from running his works! Regarding THE BRIDGE OF THE BRIDGE, BM does not understand what KS meant by his letter that BM should keep the Czech edition. He doesn't know if they are making a claim for an edition with a Czech text. He should have made himself clearer. They still hold the right to the Czech text. But he doesn't know if he is to keep it only for a possible home edition. Boosey & Hawkes have published small scores of SYMPHONY 4 and 5. BM can arrange for some pieces to be sent. When KS did not send him Gogol, BM asked [siblings]. He leaves New York the next day. About the material [Juliette] will make one last attempt and write to Minister Václav Kopecký. Someone told him that BM did not answer his letter, but BM does not remember. KS is to write to see if anything else can be done in the matter of signing a contract with B&H. Alternatively KS could sign a contract with Schott Publishing in Mainz.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Fixationtypescript, handwritten signature (Martinů), handwritten inscription
Markingsdiacritics
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot digitised

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Location as subject
Mainz
New York, NY
Paris
Washington, D.C.
Person as subject
Gogol, Nikolaj Vasiljevič
Honzl, Jindřich
Kopecký, Václav
Corporation as subject
Boosey & Hawkes, London
Orbis
Schott Music GmbH & Co.
Velvyslanectví ČSR ve Washingtonu
Composition as subject
The Plays of Mary, H 236
Juliette (The Key to Dreams), H 253
Symphony No. 4 [auth.], H 305
Symphony No. 5 [auth.], H 310
Comedy on the Bridge, H 247
The Marriage [auth.], H 341
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