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Type of the document	Letter
Sender	Schlee, Alfred
Sender (corporation)	Universal Edition
Sender‘s location	Vienna
Send date	23.11.1966
Recipient	Martinů, Charlotte
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Recipient‘s location	Vieux-Moulin
Language	French
Acquired	copy from the archive of B. Martinů Foundation, folder Universal Edition, 2011
Owner of the source	Nadace Bohuslava Martinů
Call number at IBM	UE 1966-11-23

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Content	The writer tells Charlotte Martinů that Zdenka Podhajská has given him her letter. At the same time he has piano extracts of EPOS ON GILGAMES and GREEK PASSIONS sent to Charlotte, each in triplicate. ChM is to inform him afterwards to whom she has forwarded the notes, so that the publishers do not send them to the same persons. The writer confirms that there is no chance of the operas being performed in Paris, although Universal Edition staff have tried to negotiate them. Rather, performances could take place in Bordeaux. It would be good to offer the work in Marseille as well. The writer asks Charlotte to try to contact the director of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Gabriel Dussurget, to arouse his interest in one of the works mentioned. EPOS ON GILGAMES would be particularly suitable, but GREEK PASSIONS would also fit into the Festival's framework. The writer is grateful for the interesting news from Czechoslovakia. He did not know that the planned Prague performance of GREEK PASSIONS would take place in February 1967. For the New York area, Universal Edition is represented by Presser Publishing, based in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. There one can easily obtain material of all the works of Bohuslav Martinů that have been published by Universal Edition.
Total number of leaves	1
Number of pages bearing text	1
Note	letterhead Universal Edition
Fixation	typescript, handwritten signature
Markings	Ch. Martinů: "répondu 10 Déc."