General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Note on Sender‘s location[?]
Send date28.08.1940
RecipientSacher, Paul
Recipient (corporation)
Note on Recipient‘s location[?]
LanguageFrench
AcquiredPaul Sacher Stiftung
Owner of the sourcePaul Sacher Stiftung
Former call number at IBM49/88
Call number at IBMSac 1940-08-28
Content and physical description
ContentIt is impossible to maintain written communication with Paris.
Bohuslav Martinů has received letters from Paul and Maja Sacher dated 1 and 20 August and is glad for the information about the October performance of TWO CONCERTS.
He has no chance of finding the lost manuscripts. The ones he sent one by one to a friend in America have also been lost.
Unfortunately he can do nothing about the CONCERTA GROSSA. He has written several times to Nevers, but to no avail. Would it be possible to ask in Basel? It is a parcel of sheet music that Colette Frantz submitted to the Siamec factory in Nevers on 6/7. BM could perhaps write to Universal Edition, but doesn't want to attract too much attention. However, the piece will not be lost even if the manuscript is not found: there is material stored in Paris (along with the DVOJKONCERT material) and one copy is in America, although BM himself has not checked and corrected it.
BM doesn't even want to think about the other manuscripts.
BM has started work, writing FANTASIA FOR PIANO [the first movement of FANTASIA AND TOCCATA] and would like to start on the Sinfonia [SINFONIETTA GIOCOSA] for solo piano and small orchestra.
One of BM and Charlotte Martin's luggage was rescued by Mrs. de Lacone.
They have reports from Marcel Mihalovici, Tibor Harsányi and Henri Martelli. He and ChM hope to spend the winter in Cannes.
The last two letters from PS to BM have not been censored. BM wrote to the Morgan banking house in Paris but the letter was returned to him. There is no communication with the occupied zone.
BM already has news from America, he must make further inquiries in Marseilles. The main difficulty will ultimately be finding a place on the ship. He would like to stay, but the situation in Europe seems hopeless.
Handwritten note from Charlotte Martin: ChM still has no news from his family. PS has apparently received a letter from Jean Rudolph and Nelly Lousie Frey.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text2
Fixationhandwriting
Markingsinscription by Ch. Martinů
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional black-and-white
Digitized atBohuslav Martinů Institute
Date of digitisation2017

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Location as subject
Basel
Cannes
Marseille
Nevers
Paris
Person as subject
de Lacone, ?
Frantz, Colette
Frey, Jean Rudolph
Frey, Nelly Louise
Harsányi, Tibor
Martinů, Charlotte
Mihalovici, Marcel
Corporation as subject
Morgan
Siamec
Universal Edition
Composition as subject
Concerto Grosso, H 263
Double Concerto, H 271
Fantasy and Toccata, H 281
Sinfonietta Giocosa, H 282
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