General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationRome
Send date14.05.1957
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 11 738
Former call number at IBM80/31
Call number at IBMJež 1957-05-14
Content and physical description
ContentHis first book has arrived [probably from Fromm]; FJ already has a passport and BM hopes she can come with the doctor; rumours are spreading at home that BM will come; he has written to Frank; Legend will be heard in Prague at the Festival (about 28.5.)-BM will listen on the radio and then in Polička; B. is not in It. yet, waiting for a visa; BM's Collected Works published in Brno- includes memories of Talich, Bořkovec and S. Novák, article from his mother, etc.- 3 copies were sent to him, but the Ministry had to give permission; he intends to stay in Rome with Ch. for the whole summer; he has written a new composition for mixed choir to a text by Bures; he has not heard how the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Russia turned out- they played BM Fantasy there; K. Novák did not write to him, he only wrote home; at the Festival they will play 4 pieces for him; about polit. The situation in the world; he had not seen Olga; he had ordered Studanek for FJ and sent it to her, but it may have been lost- the same thing probably happened to Lövenbach; he mentions Šebánek, Kubelík and Frank; Legend will be sung by Kühn's choir (who also recorded Studanek); Š. had his passport taken away on arrival; Š[afránek] will stay in Prague; he does not yet speak Italian at all.
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
Brno
Cleveland, Ohio
Polička
Prague
Person as subject
Bořkovec, Pavel
Bureš, Miloslav
Kubelík, Rafael
McCarthy, Joseph Raymond
Novák, Karel
Novák, Stanislav
Rybka, Frank
Šafránek, Miloš
Schneeberger, Olga
Šebánek, Karel
Talich, Václav
Corporation as subject
Česká filharmonie
Kühnův smíšený sbor
Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí ČSR
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
The Romance from the Dandelions, H 364
Symphony No. 6 (Fantaisies Symphoniques), H 343
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