General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderHavlasa, Jan
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationUSA
Send date1959
RecipientHaluza, Miloslav
Recipient (corporation)
LanguageCzech
AcquiredLos Angeles, Hard Headly, Jan Havlasa estate
Former call number at IBM30/A/21
Call number at IBMHav 1959-00-00
Content and physical description
ContentHavlasa replies to a "dear friend" [presumably Miloslav Haluza] to various questions from previous correspondence concerning personal matters. One point concerns Bohuslav Martinů. In 1920, BM reportedly asked Havlasa to do the libretto from 'Windows into the Fog' for him, which Havlasa refused due to lack of time. BM, however, wrote the libretto for the first act himself with his permission and is said to have set it to music, but he asked Havlasa to send him the sheet music for the whole opera from Paris. Havlasa did so (see letter from Havlasa: BM, 2 May 1920), but he did not receive a thank-you from BM. Furthermore, Havlasa was offended that during a chance meeting in Paris before the opera (probably in 1931), he allegedly made BM look as if he did not know Havlasa. Nevertheless, Havlas is said to have had BM's Second Symphony, which Šimek had acquired from BM in the USA, played in Santiago de Chile. BM did not thank Havlas for this act either. BM Havlas's new compositions "do not go under his nose and into his ear".
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
FixationTypescript, handwritten signature
Digitisation The document is not digitized. Hard copy available in Bohuslav Martinů Institute library.
Location as subject
Paris
Santiago de Chile
Person as subject
Šimek-Vojík, Adolf
Composition as subject
Windows into the Mist, H 124ter
Symphony No. 2, H 295
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