General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationParis
Send date21.06.1927
RecipientVogel, Jaroslav
Recipient (corporation)
Note on Recipient‘s location[Plzeň?]
LanguageCzech
AcquiredOstravské muzeum, December 2014
Owner of the sourceOstravské muzeum
Owner‘s call numberG 895/4911
Call number at IBMVogJ 1927-06-21
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů responds to a letter asking about Alfred de Musset's play Lorenzaccio. He doesn't have time to go and see it, but he thinks it's an ordinary drama with incidental music because it's being performed at the Comédie-Française. He doesn't think it would be interesting for Jaroslav Vogel. BM read reserved reviews of it, the reviews from Monte Carlo were rather dismissive. BM finished a full-length comic opera [THE SOLDIER AND THE DANCER] and commissioned it for Brno. It will be performed probably next February (March). It is treated somewhat like a modern revue, scenically very rewarding, not requiring a large circulation, with a small orchestra. A really jolly theatrical thing. If JV is interested, he should go to [Karel] Šolc in Prague, who does the piano lift and has the score with him, or he should inquire with Dr. [Jan] Löwenbach. BM thinks the JV would be good, it's melodic, not too heavy and the singers really sing in it. He would be happy to have it performed in Pilsen, but JV would have to let him know in advance to give him the disposition. The score could be available in November.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text2
NoteSome of the words are underlined by BM.
Transcription of the letter and facsimile of the second page is published in Lenka Černíková’s book “Jaroslav Vogel 1894–1970: Interpet hudebního prostoru ” (Ostrava: Ostravské muzeum 2014), pp. 105–106, [130].
FixationHandwriting
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atIBM
Date of digitisation2020

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Location as subject
Brno
Monte Carlo
Prague
Person as subject
Löwenbach, Jan
Musset, Alfred de
Šolc, Karel
Corporation as subject
Comédie-Française
Composition as subject
The Soldier and the Dancer, H 162
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