General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderZouhar, Zdeněk
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationBrno
Send date10.01.1968
RecipientŠolc, Karel
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationPrague
Note on Recipient‘s location[Prague?]
LanguageCzech
AcquiredFrom Mrs. Květová (daughter of Mrs. Šolc); 09/2003
Owner of the sourceNadace Bohuslava Martinů
Former owner- Soukromý vlastník, Private owner
Owner‘s call numberDepozitum v CBM, př. č. D 75/2010
Call number at IBMŠolK 1968-01-10
Content and physical description
ContentZdeněk Zouhar asks Karel Šolc to tell him what he has ever played by Bohuslav Martinů, either alone or with St[anislav] Novák and others. [Czechoslovak Radio] is assembling recordings of BM compositions. Now they have recorded four "worlds" with the [Czech] Philharmonic. premieres of his orchestral compositions from his youth. They also want to complete compositions for solo piano. Mainly these are the cycles SUMMER SUITE, EVENING ON THE FIRE, but also others.
[below the text part of the concept of the answer by Karel Šolc's hands:] He apologizes for the delayed answer. As for BM as an artist and his interests, the matter is not simple. BM was interested in all culture (literature, music, theatre, opera, liked to draw something sometimes, etc.). He didn't talk much and almost nothing about himself, KS didn't learn much about his assessment of composers either. BM disliked [Peter I.] Tchaikovsky, Vit[erslav] Novak, [Johannes] Brahms. It was only the performance of Brahms' Symphony No. 4 by A[rthur] Nikisch during the war that brought him to Brahms. It was not until the end of the First World War that KS came to know BM as a composer.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text2
FixationTypescript, handwritten signature
MarkingsThe concept of the answer in Karel Šolc's hand
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Note on digitisationScan

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Location as subject
Prague
Person as subject
Brahms, Johannes
Čajkovskij, Pjotr Iljič
Martinů, Bohuslav
Nikisch, Arthur
Novák, Vítězslav
Novák, Stanislav
Štěpán, Václav
Corporation as subject
Česká filharmonie
Československý rozhlas
Composition as subject
Summer Suite, H 113
Evening at the Shore, H 128
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