General information
Type of the document Varia
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Send date31.10.1942
Send date noteDate according to orginal letter to which this text was attached, BSO 1942-10-31a
RecipientBurk, John N.
Recipient (corporation)Boston Symphony Orchestra
Recipient‘s locationBoston, Massachusetts
Note on Recipient‘s location[Boston]
LanguageFrench
AcquiredCopy from Library of Congress, 02/1988
Owner of the sourceLibrary of Congress
Former call number at IBMBSO 0000-00-00a
Call number at IBMBSO 1942-31-10b
Content and physical description
ContentBM is thinking about the symphonic form: it is one of the great problems of contemporary composers. He writes about the history and about the fruitless attempts of modern composers to change the structure. The content is not affected, with rare exceptions. What a lofty ideal should be? Each composer of this time is obliged to blend the sensations of grandeur and tragedy to a certain extent, it is the inheritance of the Romantic era. He is thinking about the exaggerated expressivity and noise of these times. The music loses its charm and the visitors are exhausted when they leave a concert. At the end he describes his First Symphony from an aesthetic point of view. It has the classic four-movement plan and corresponds to his own convictions. He talks about the birth of the work.
Total number of leaves2
Number of pages bearing text4
NoteThis text was originally attachment of letter from Martinů to John Burku, sig. BSO 1942-10-31a
FixationHandwriting
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional black-and-white
Digitized atLibrary of Congress
Date of digitisation2017

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Location as subject
Jamaica - New York City, New York
Vermont
Person as subject
Kusevickij, Sergej Aleksandrovič
Composition as subject
Symphony No. 1 [auth.], H 289
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