General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationNew York, NY
Note on Sender‘s location[New York City, New York?]
Send date05.12.1951
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 IBM49/243
Call number at IBMSac 1951-12-05
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů thanks Paul Sacher for his letter. He regrets that they did not meet in New York in September. BM had gone to the mountains and that no one knew where he was. He did not return to New York until the beginning of the school year (Oct. 1) for his work.
Willi Schuh's article is very good and may be published. BM asks only that one sentence be corrected, according to which he gave up returning to Czechoslovakia. That wording could cause him problems, and there are still many manuscripts left in Czechoslovakia that he is trying to save. WS is supposed to have written that BM stayed in America because of his work as a professor at Princeton University. There is only one misstatement in the article, that BM wanted to go to South America; in fact he wanted to go to the USA. Marguerite Staehelin helped the writer with the translation of the article.
The CONCERT FOR TWO HOUSELETS AND ORCHESTRA is now exclusive, but BM will try to obtain a copy for PS.
BM has composed PASTORELS FROM STOWE for recorders for a sort of Basel Festival for next year and needs to send it to Conrad Beck;
He will soon write to the addressee about his musical activities. He and [Charlotte Martinů] greet the addressee and Maja Sacher.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
NoteB. Martinů's address written in hand
Fixationtypescript, handwritten signature
Markingsin an unidentified hand
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional black-and-white
Digitized atBohuslav Martinů Institute
Date of digitisation2017

Preview only available at the Institute.

Location as subject
Basel
Czechoslovakia
South America
Princeton, New Jersey
USA
Person as subject
Beck, Conrad
Martinů, Charlotte
Sacher, Maja
Schuh, Willi
Staehelin, Marguerite
Corporation as subject
Princeton University
Composition as subject
Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra [auth.], H 329
Stowe Pastorals [auth.], H 335
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