General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationNew York, NY
Send date19.12.1941
RecipientKusevickij, Sergej Aleksandrovič
Recipient (corporation)
LanguageFrench
Acquiredfrom Library of Congress, 02/1998
Owner of the sourceLibrary of Congress
Former call number at IBM50/42
Call number at IBMBSO 1941-12-19
Content and physical description
ContentBM sends Christmas greetings to SK. He has the sheet music of the Double Concerto and would like SK to perform it. He considers the piece to be one of his more successful and is excited about it. The work was written at the time of the Munich crisis and bears traces of the anxiety of those difficult times. He would like to dedicate the symphony to SK and his orchestra for next season. He wants to send the Double Concerto to Koussevitzky and asks where. The Double Concerto is for two string orchestras, piano and timpani; it lasts 25 minutes.

BM sends Christmas greetings to SK. BM has the score of the Double-Concerto and would like for SK to perform it. He considers this powerful work to be one of his more successful compositions and is especially fond of it. It was written in 1938 during the Munich crisis, and bears the mark, the anguish of those terrible moments for his country and himself. He would like to give SK a symphonny written for SK and his orchestra for the next season. He would like to send the score of the Double-Concerto to SK. He asks what Koussevitzky's intentions are, and where to send the score. The Double-Concerto is written for two string orchestras, piano and kettledrums; it lasts 25 minutes.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text2
Fixationhandwriting
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional black-and-white

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Location as subject
Munich
Corporation as subject
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Composition as subject
Double Concerto, H 271
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