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Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationParis
Send date08.09.1938
Send date note8 [September] 1938, the date of the letter erroneously "8/8 1938"
Recipient
Recipient (corporation)Melantrich
LanguageCzech
Acquiredcopy from K. Šebánek estate, CBM, Polička
Owner of the sourceCentrum Bohuslava Martinů v Poličce
Former ownerŠebánek, Karel
Former call number at IBM38/25
Call number at IBMMEL 1938-09-08
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Martinů announces the success of the premiere of TRE RICERCARI at the Venice Festival. His INVENCE was previously performed in Venice. For the Arte Quartet, he performed the SMITH QUARTET No. 5 in Los Angeles and will perform it in Washington and Paris. SMITH QUARTET No. 4 was broadcast by radio in Luxembourg and will be broadcast in Paris. CONCERTO GROSSO will be performed in Paris by Munch. The BBC will play CONCERTINO FOR CL. TRIO AND SM. ORCHESTRA and LEGEND OF ST. DOROTH [SPALICE] and they want to add CONCERT FOR CEMBALO AND SMALL ORCHESTRA, CONCERT FOR VIOLONCELLO AND ORCHESTRA No. 1 and THE BIRTH OF THE LORD [PLAYS ABOUT MARY]. He is working on a DOUBLE CONCERT for P. Sacher, which will be performed in Basel and Paris perhaps this season. They are to make an article of it and send it to the newspapers. They performed JULIET in Olomouc and Martinů will send them TWICE ALEXANDER. In Prague they will perform JULIET again, in Brno VESELOHRA ON THE BRIDGE. Firkušný will perform CONCERT FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA. [No. 1 or No. 2]. The Philharmonic will perform CONCERTINO FOR CL. TIRO AND SM. ORCH. What about INVENCE and Talich? INVENCE, a march from THE BRIDGE OF THE BRIDGE and CONCERTO GROSSO at Radio-Paris. It is necessary to contact the radio in Geneva. For radio in Prague, TRE RICERCARI, THE BIRTH OF THE LORD [PLAYS OF MARY] and INVENCE. Should Martinů write to Jirák? It will probably be played in Boston, Brussels and Paris.

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NoteThe date of the letter by Martinu's hand is erroneously 8/8 1938, but the content of the letter confirms, that it must be 8 September 1938, after the premiere of TRE RICERCARI 6.9.1938 at the Biennale di Venezia.
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