General information
Type of the document Letter
Sender
Sender (corporation)Dilia – Divadelní a literární agentura
Sender‘s locationPrague
Note on Sender‘s location[Prague]
Send date26.02.1954
RecipientMartinů, Bohuslav
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationNew York, NY
LanguageCzech
Acquiredcopy from the archive of Dilia, 2016
Owner of the sourceDilia – Divadelní a literární agentura
Call number at IBMDLA 1954-02-26
Content and physical description
ContentDilia apologizes to Bohuslav Martinů for the late reply. JULIETTY's piano extracts are published by Melantrich, with about 1,500 copies still in stock. Melantrich therefore still holds the publishing rights. Dilia would be interested in representing BM, either on their own or in conjunction with a foreign publisher (Boosey & Hawkes, Universal Edition). They could split the activity: Dilia would represent BM in "people's democratic" countries and the London firm in other countries.
The same division would apply to the SPALK. Orbis received an enquiry about foreign rights from an English firm. The rest of the print run of piano lifts of ŠPALÍČK is about 1 002, the score is held by BM's siblings in Czechoslovakia. Dilia hopes that BM will have it reproduced in Prague from material he approved, i.e. not from the Brno score, which he later shortened.
Dilia asks BM to comment.
Total number of leaves1+1
Number of pages bearing text1+1
Fixationtypescript, handwritten signature
Attachmentsconcept of the letter
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atDilia
Date of digitisation2016

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Location as subject
Czechoslovakia
London
Vienna
Corporation as subject
Boosey & Hawkes, London
Melantrich
Orbis
Universal Edition
Composition as subject
Juliette (The Key to Dreams), H 253
The Chap-Book, 2nd version, H 214 II
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