General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationRome
Note on Sender‘s locationLocation is mentioned in the text of letter.
Send date27.10.1956
RecipientBurian, Emil František
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationCzechoslovakia
Note on Recipient‘s location[Czechoslovakia]
LanguageCzech
Acquiredcopy from Jan Burian, 12/2005
Owner of the source- Soukromý vlastník, Private owner
Call number at IBMBurE 1956-10-27
Content and physical description
ContentBM thanks the addressee for the letter and reminisces about the past and his country. BM replies negatively to the addressee's request for a new opera. Although he would like to write a 'folk opera' one day, this is not possible in the present situation. As a reason, he cites the time constraints of working on a major opera [Greek Passion], Legend [Legend of the Potato Nati Smoke] and the lack of a suitable literary subject. Given the addressee's demands for orchestral scoring, BM offers to perform his opera What People Live By Tolstoy and The Marriage.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Fixationtypewriting
Digitisation The document is not digitized. Hard copy available in Bohuslav Martinů Institute library.
Person as subject
Bureš, Miloslav
Corporation as subject
Boosey & Hawkes, London
Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury, hudby a umění
Composition as subject
What Men Live by [auth.], H 336
The Legend of the Smoke from Potato Tops, H 360
The Greek Passion, 1st version, H 372 I
The Marriage [auth.], H 341
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