General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Note on Sender‘s location[?]
Send date24.02.1950
RecipientStein, Erwin
Recipient (corporation)Boosey & Hawkes
Note on Recipient‘s location[New York?]
LanguageEnglish
AcquiredCopy from Boosey & Hawkes, 2011 (from Sharon Choa)
Owner of the sourceBoosey & Hawkes
Call number at IBMBH 1950-02-24
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů sends several corrections that he would like to change, if it is not too late, in the third movement of SYMPHONY No. 4. He asks for the changes to be made in the parts as well. BM sent corrections to the parts of SYMPHONY No. 5 from Paris.
Transcription of the letter

Martinu IV symph. 

correction, score + parts



Feb.24.1950



Dear Mr. Stein.



If it is not too late, I would like to make a correction in my Symphony N. IV. (Third movement.), page 59 of the [photostote ?] copy. N. 2.



Could you put change the dynamics in Piano and D. Basse, put f (not p.) with > and >>



[načrtnutý notový zápis] (the same in piano)



And (>) in this bar.



Also if you could dynamics in String, one bar before N.2, also f (not poco f).



Put it also in orch. parts. 



I sended [!] you from Paris all the corrections for orch. parts also for V.th Symphony.



Thank you very much.



With my best regards



B. Martinů


Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
FixationHandwriting
MarkingsNote by editor from B&H that the changes were corrected in the score and in the parts as well
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atBoosey & Hawkes

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Location as subject
Paris
Composition as subject
Symphony No. 4 [auth.], H 305
Symphony No. 5 [auth.], H 310
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