General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Note on Sender‘s location[?]
Send date12.10.1958
RecipientSacher, Paul
Recipient (corporation)
Note on Recipient‘s location[?]
LanguageFrench
AcquiredPaul Sacher Stiftung
Owner of the sourcePaul Sacher Stiftung
Former call number at IBM49/302
Call number at IBMSac 1958-10-12
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů apologises to Paul Sacher that [he and Charlotte Martinů] will not be coming to Basel for the concert [24 October, performance of THE SMITH SEXTET]. The journey via Mulhouse and Geneva is long and arduous and travelling by plane would be too expensive. BM would like to see Paul and Maja Sacher, as well as Chip and Monique [i.e., Marcel Mihalovici and his wife Monique Haas], but SEXTET is an old work and he doesn't feel it necessary to travel for it. ChM suggested he go alone, but he can't because of his hearing problems.
He [and ChM] listen to the radio. The previous day they heard an announcement on a station from Turin about a performance of EPOS ON GILGAMES (apparently with Ferruccio Scaglia) and a Strasbourg performance of TWELVE CONCERTS with Charles Bruck.
BM has no news about the performance of JULIET [in Wiesbaden, see Sac 1958-09-23], only from Prague he is told that it will take place on 26 Jan.
He is working on GREEK PASSIONS and would like to finish Act 4 there.
Total number of leaves1+1
Number of pages bearing text1+1
Notediplomatic transcription of the letter attached
Fixationtypescript, handwritten signature
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional black-and-white
Digitized atBohuslav Martinů Institute
Date of digitisation2017

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Location as subject
Basel
Mulhouse
Prague
Strasbourg
Torino
Wiesbaden
Geneva
Person as subject
Bruck, Charles
Haas, Monique
Martinů, Charlotte
Mihalovici, Marcel
Sacher, Maja
Scaglia, Ferruccio
Composition as subject
Double Concerto, H 271
The Epic of Gilgamesh [auth.], H 351
Juliette (The Key to Dreams), H 253
The Greek Passion, 2nd version, H 372 II
String Sextet, H 224
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