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Type of the document Letter
SenderStein, Erwin
Sender (corporation)Boosey & Hawkes, London
Sender‘s locationLondon
Send date20.07.1950
RecipientSacher, Paul
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationSchönenberg, Pratteln
Note on Recipient‘s location[Schönenberg - Pratteln]
LanguageEnglish
Acquiredtranscript by Jana Franková, 08/2017; the original letter is in Paul Sacher Stiftung
Owner of the sourcePaul Sacher Stiftung
Call number at IBMBH 1950-07-20
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Boosey & Hawkes are about to release Bohuslav Martinů's SINFONIE CONCERTANTE. They would like to compare their estimated durata with Paul Sacher's experience. Erwin Stein would ask BM directly, but he hasn't had a chance to hear the piece yet.

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We are going to publish Martinu’s SINFONIA CONCERTANTE and will try to have the score out for the date of your performance. As you know, we usually print the duration of the music in our scores, and I should like to check our estimate with yours. I suppose the first movement lasts about ten minutes, the second four minutes (or 3-3/4), and the third about ten minutes. This would make the overall duration about 24 minutes. I would be grateful if you would let me have your estimate. I will, of course, ask Martinu, but I am not sure that he can judge this not having heard the work. [...]


Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Notewritten on a letterhead Boosey and Hawkes, London; only transcription of the part of the letter available at B. Martinu Institute
Fixationtypescript
Digitisation The document is not digitized. Hard copy available in Bohuslav Martinů Institute library.
Person as subject
Martinů, Bohuslav
Composition as subject
Sinfonia Concertante [auth.] No. 2, H 322
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