General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderSacher, Paul
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationSchönenberg - Pratteln
Note on Sender‘s location[Schönenberg - Pratteln]
Send date06.10.1950
RecipientStein, Erwin
Recipient (corporation)Boosey & Hawkes, London
Recipient‘s locationLondon
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 1950-10-06
Content and physical description
Transcription of the letter

[...]



Thank you for your letter of 3rd October and the solo parts of the “Sinfonia concertante”  by Martinu, which have just arrived. I should like to have another score indeed, if this is possible. What a pity though, the printed score will not be ready for the performance!



                I should like to have the material of the “Sinfonia Concertante” for the library of the Basler Kammerorchester. Are you inclined to sell us a complete orchestra material and what would be its price?



                I have just gone through the soloparts and find that obviously the composer has not seen them before the actual printing. There is a heavy mistake, pages 55 and 56 being inverted. The composer had numbered them wrongly way, i.e. page 55 for page 56 and v.v. I think the parts had best been reprinted at once with the respective corrections.



[...]


Notea carbon copy of the sent letter; only transcription of the part of the letter is available at Bohuslav Martinu Institute
Fixationcarbon copy of the typescript
Person as subject
Corporation as subject
Composition as subject
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