General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationNew York, NY
Send date29.01.1947
RecipientMerritt, Arthur Tillman
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationCambridge, Massachusetts
Note on Recipient‘s location[Cambridge, Massachusetts]
LanguageEnglish
AcquiredIsham Memorial Library, Cambridge, USA
Owner of the sourceHarvard University, Cambridge MA
Owner‘s call numberMs. Coll. 100, box 1
Former call number at IBM31/17
Call number at IBMMer 1947-01-29
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů is looking forward to the symposium and hopes to be able to come to Boston. He thinks they will be able to stay with friends from the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Arthur Tillman Merritt is to ask Walter Piston to make corrections to the score for the tempo indications. He first used an electric metronome, then found that the readings did not match the MM, all wrong. The correct readings are: 1st movement: quarter = 108 (104) MM, 2nd movement: eighth = 120 MM, 3rd movement: quarter = 92 MM, and Allegro con brio: half = 120 MM.
Transcription of the letter

January 29, 1947.



Dear Mr. Merritt,



I am looking forward to the Symposium concerts and I hope, we will be able to come to Boston. Please make a arrangement for us. I think we can stay with our friends from Boston Symphony.



Thank you for the check.



Would you be so kind and ask Mr. Piston to make a corrections dans le score and partes, to correct the metronomic indications. I used for the first time the electric metronome and now, I see that it doesnot concord with Maelzel metronome. it is all wrong.



The correct indications are:



I. First movement            Maelzel M.         Q=108(104)



II. Second Movement     “            “             E=120



III. Last mev                      “             “        Q=92



and Allegro con brio, page 35.                   H=120



Thank you, I am with my best regards



yours



B. Martinu


Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Fixationtypescript, handwritten signature
Markingsmarking by an unknown hand at the paragraph with corrections: "done W[alter?]. P[iston?]."
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atIsham Memorial Library
Date of digitisation11/2016

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Location as subject
Boston, Massachusetts
Corporation as subject
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Composition as subject
String Quartet No. 6, H 312
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