General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationParis
Send date29.07.1934
RecipientEwen, David
Recipient (corporation)
Note on Recipient‘s location[?]
LanguageFrench
Acquiredcopy from the Geiger Collection of Modern Composers, Carnegie Hall Archives, 2017
Owner of the sourceCarnegie Hall, New York
Owner‘s call numberBox 1, folder 28
Call number at IBMEweD 1934-07-29
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů sends David Ewen the answers to his biographical questionnaire for contemporary composers. The text is divided into a total of ten sections apparently corresponding to the questions asked (the original questionnaire is not quoted). BM summarises his background and education, and gives an overview of his work to date and its reception. He considers his way of composing to be 'intrinsic and difficult to explain'. In music he prefers Mozart.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text2
Fixationhandwriting
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationProfessional
Digitized atCarnegie Hall Archives
Date of digitisation2017

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Location as subject
Baden-Baden
Venice
Berlin
Boston, Massachusetts
Brno
London
New York, NY
Paris
Pisa
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Polička
Prague
Providence, Rhode Island
Washington, D.C.
Person as subject
Cortot, Alfred
Dushkin, Samuel
Kusevickij, Sergej Aleksandrovič
Mooser, Robert-Aloys
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Pierné, Gabriel
Roussel, Albert
Straram, Walther
Suk, Josef st.
Wagner, Richard
Corporation as subject
Berkshire Chamber Music Festival
Biennale di Venezia
Česká filharmonie
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation
Pražská konzervatoř
Pro Arte Quartet
Roth Quartet
Sonata Players
The George Washington University
Composition as subject
Duo for Violin and Violoncello No. 1, H 157
Half-time, H 142
The Plays of Mary, H 236
Inventions [auth.], H 234
Jazz Suite, H 172
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1, H 226
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1, H 149
La Bagarre (The Tumult), H 155
Les Rondes, H 200
Partita (Suite No. 1), H 212
Rhapsody, H 171
Serenade, H 199
String Quartet No. 2, H 150
String Quartet No. 3, H 183
String Quartet with Orchestra, H 207
String Quintet for Two Violins, Two Violas and Violoncello, H 164
String Sextet, H 224
Sonata for Two Violins and Piano, H 213
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, H 182
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2, H 208
Sonatina for Two Violins and Piano, H 198
The Chap-Book, 1st version, H 214 I
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