General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderRoth, Ernst
Sender (corporation)Boosey & Hawkes, London
Sender‘s locationLondon
Send date16.09.1955
RecipientStrnad, Vojtěch
Recipient (corporation)Dilia – Divadelní a literární agentura
Recipient‘s locationPrague
LanguageEnglish
Acquiredcopy from the archive of Dilia, 2016
Owner of the sourceDilia – Divadelní a literární agentura
Call number at IBMBH 1955-09-16a
Content and physical description
ContentBoosey and Hawkes thank Dilia for her letter of September 12, 1955.
It is not true that B&H sent the score of JULIETTA to the theatre in Wiesbaden and thus prevented Dilia from producing the material. The score was sent to the theatre by Bohuslav Martinů and was his private property. The B&H did not own the score and sent the only piano lift they had to the theatre. They are investigating why the theatre has not yet performed the opera. From BM's statement they infer that one score and the complete material are in Czechoslovakia, possibly at the National Theatre. Perhaps Dilia could find out more.
B&H agree to a draft contract for mutual cooperation between the two publishers. The scores, piano excerpts and orchestral parts for GENEITY and WHAT PEOPLE LIVE are printed, and B&H will make them available to Dilia at any time. The material for MIRANDOLINA is not yet complete, but the piano lift is laid out and can be produced at any time. B&H is awaiting a decision from La Scala, Milan, by the end of October as to whether MIRANDOLINA will be premiered there. It will thus be completed in April or May 1956 at the earliest.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text2
Noteletterhead Boosey & Hawkes
Fixationtypescript, handwritten signature
Markingsin an unidentified hand; stamp: "22. IX. 1955"
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atDilia
Date of digitisation2016

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Location as subject
Czechoslovakia
Milan
Wiesbaden
Person as subject
Gershwin, George
Martinů, Bohuslav
Corporation as subject
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
Národní divadlo v Praze
Teatro alla Scala
Composition as subject
What Men Live by [auth.], H 336
Juliette (The Key to Dreams), H 253
Mirandolina, H 346
The Marriage [auth.], H 341
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