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Type of the document	Letter
Sender	Martinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s location	Paris
Send date	22.01.1940
Recipient	Deutsch, Pavel
Recipient (corporation)
Language	Czech
Acquired	copy from Gregory Dayton-Mohl, 2013
Owner of the source	- Soukromý vlastník, Private owner
Call number at IBM	Deu 1940-01-22

Content and physical description

Content	Bohuslav Martinů has learned from Miss K[aprálová] that Pavel Deutsch did not receive his two letters. He therefore thanks him again for the package and for the Christmas gift for him, as well as for his brother. On January 24 Germaine Laroux will play the CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA NO. 2 at Carnegie Hall. They have asked BM for „that mass“ [FIELD MASS], but he has to make himself another copy, since he doesn’t know if the one he sent to Prague arrived – he has no news from there. BM went to see Mrs. Bojková, but so far she hasn’t managed to find him any flat. BM is also waiting for a reply from friends in the U.S., who left behind an empty flat in Paris. Bad news from Prague – BM is forbidden to work and Dr. Štěpán must go for another operation. The legation paid no attention to the performance in Basel [premiere of the DOUBLE CONCERTO February 9, 1940?], but BM at least has the news published in a Czech paper in Paris. Charlotte Martinů enjoys fond memories and both look forward to their reunion. PD should write them some news of himself and be on the lookout for the magazine Dissonance and eventually other reviews.
Total number of leaves	1
Number of pages bearing text	2
Fixation	handwriting

Letter

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Digitisation

Quality of digitisation

Not professional colour

Location as subject

Basel

Prague

USA

Person as subject

Bojková, ?

Kaprálová, Vítězslava

Leroux, Germaine

Martinů, Charlotte

Štěpán, Václav

Corporation as subject

Carnegie Hall, New York

Dissonance

Velvyslanectví ČSR v Paříži

Composition as subject

Double Concerto, H 271

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2, H 237

Field Mass, H 279