General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationSouth Orleans, Massachusetts
Send date16.09.1945
RecipientSacher, Paul
Recipient (corporation)
Note on Recipient‘s location[?]
LanguageFrench
Language 2English
AcquiredPaul Sacher Stiftung
Owner of the sourcePaul Sacher Stiftung
Former call number at IBM49/150
Call number at IBMSac 1945-09-16
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů thanks Paul and Maja Sacher for their letter of 22 August.They [and Charlotte Martinů] decided to speed up their preparations for departure so that they could be at the Paris performance of the Double Concerto. They cannot wait to see the Sachers.
Perhaps Charles Munch could officially invite the writer on behalf of the "Société" [Société des Concerts du Conservatoire du Paris] in case of complications with visa and boat tickets. PS is to inform the writer of the exact date.
He and ChM are still in the country, and will return to their old address on 1 Oct (BM gives a New York address). PS is to write to them there already.
BM will have a busy winter - of his works, SYMPHONY No. 3 will be premiered in Boston and New York, SYMPHONY No. 4 in Philadelphia and New York, THUNDERBOLT ["Scherzo"] in Washington, violin SONATA No. 3 and other works.
BM worked well and probably will not compose at all for some time. An offer has come from the Prague Conservatory, and he will gladly accept it. First, however, he will stop in Paris, where he will have the opportunity to attend Sacher's concert [the performance of TWO CONCERTS]. BM and Charlotte are looking forward to seeing Pratteln and meeting PS and MS and all their other friends there.
A biography [of BM by Milos Safranek?] has been published by Alfred A. Knopf. BM will try to send it to the addressee. He has also finally received a letter from his family and plans to write to them.
BM and Charlotte greet the addressee, Maja Sacher, Arthur Honegger and Conrad Beck.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Fixationhandwriting
Markingsin an unidentified hand: Erh. 21. Sept 45
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional black-and-white
Digitized atBohuslav Martinů Institute
Date of digitisation2017

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Location as subject
Boston, Massachusetts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
New York, NY
Paris
Schönenberg, Pratteln
South Orleans, Massachusetts
Washington, D.C.
Person as subject
Beck, Conrad
Honegger, Arthur
Martinů, Charlotte
Munch, Charles
Sacher, Maja
Šafránek, Miloš
Corporation as subject
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire du Paris
Pražská konzervatoř
Composition as subject
Double Concerto, H 271
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3, H 303
Symphony No. 3 [auth.], H 299
Symphony No. 4 [auth.], H 305
Thunderbolt P-47 [auth.], H 309
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