General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderSacher, Paul
Sender (corporation)
Note on Sender‘s location[?]
Send date01.10.1954
RecipientMartinů, Bohuslav
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationNice
LanguageFrench
AcquiredPaul Sacher Stiftung
Owner of the sourcePaul Sacher Stiftung
Former call number at IBM49/251
Call number at IBMSac 1954-10-01
Content and physical description
ContentPaul Sacher thanks Bohuslav Martinů for his letter. Maja Sacher will be proud that BM dedicates her EPOS ABOUT GILGAMES.
It will probably be necessary for BM to contact the translator [Reginald Campbell Thompson?] or his publisher. What language will BM use in the work?
Sacher's choir has between 60 and 80 singers, male and female. It is an amateur choir, so perhaps BM will use the classic four-part notation without frequent internal division of individual voices. The usual number of strings in the Basel Chamber Orchestra is 10/10/8/6/4. The BM may add wind instruments at will.
Harmonium [instead of organ] would not be recommended by the PS. He suggests the use of a portable or electric organ.
For Tibor Harsányi, death was apparently a deliverance.
PS and MS salute the addressee and Charlotte Martinů.
Total number of leaves1+1
Number of pages bearing text1+1
Notediplomatic transcription of the letter attached
Fixationtypescript
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional black-and-white
Digitized atBohuslav Martinů Institute
Date of digitisation2017

Preview only available at the Institute.

Person as subject
Campbell Thompson, Reginald
Harsányi, Tibor
Martinů, Charlotte
Sacher, Maja
Corporation as subject
Basler Kammerorchester
Composition as subject
The Epic of Gilgamesh [auth.], H 351
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