General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderStein, Erwin
Sender (corporation)Boosey & Hawkes, London
Sender‘s locationLondon
Send date14.08.1950
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 1950-08-14
Content and physical description
Transcription of the letter

Thank you for your letters of the 4th and 9th August, which I found in my office on the way from Salzburg to Harewood.



MARTINU – “SINFONIA CONCERTANTE”



                I have told the printers that the 16th October will be sufficient for the delivery of the parts, except for the solo parts which will arrive a fortnight earlier or even before that. However, I am doubtful whether we shall be able to send you another full score in addition to the one you have already received from us. We are trying to have the score printed by the date of your performance but it will not be possible to have it much earlier.



                As for the duration, I think we can safely give this as twenty minutes.



[...]


Notewritten on a letterhead Boosey and Hawkes, London; only transcription of the part of the letter is available at Bohuslav Martinu Institute
Fixationtypescript
Digitisation The document is not digitized. Hard copy available in Bohuslav Martinů Institute library.
Location as subject
Harewood, West Yorkshire
Salzburg
Person as subject
Martinů, Bohuslav
Composition as subject
Sinfonia Concertante [auth.] No. 2, H 322
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