General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationRome
Send date08.04.1957
RecipientJežková, Frances
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationNew York, NY
LanguageCzech
AcquiredCzech Museum of Music, 2007
Owner of the sourceČeské muzeum hudby
Owner‘s call numberG 11 736
Former call number at IBM80/29
Call number at IBMJež 1957-04-08
Content and physical description
ContentAsks FJ to ask Chaucer for two books by Fromm; sends a picture of the President; Frank has written to him; Frank wants to write to the conductor at La Scala in Milan to urge the performance of BM's operas; mentions the quartet in connection with Rybka; no news from Prague; Šebánek did not write back-he was in London, where he probably visited Kubelík; the recording of Studanek for FJ has probably been lost, probably the same with Studanek for Lövenbach, Frank got them; he urges FJ to take care of her passport, she and Ch. worries; friends from Bohemia would like to visit him, he will only accept "his poet"; in May the Legend will be [performed] [probably in Prague]; tomorrow [i.e. 9.4.] there will be a concert in Rome, at which one BM composition will be performed; the former editor of BM will come from London.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Notethe envelope attached
Fixationtypewriting, handwritten signature
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationProfessional
Digitized atČMH
Date of digitisation2022

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Location as subject
Prague
Rome
Washington, D.C.
Person as subject
Bureš, Miloslav
Kubelík, Rafael
Rybka, Frank
Šebánek, Karel
Corporation as subject
Teatro alla Scala
Composition as subject
The Legend of the Smoke from Potato Tops, H 360
The Opening of the Springs / The Opening of the Wells, H 354
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