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Type of the document	Letter
Sender	Muchová, Geraldine
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Sender‘s location	Prague
Note on Sender‘s location	[Prague]
Send date	17.06.2009
Recipient	Terian, Gregory
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Language	English
Acquired	Acquired from Gregory Terian in 2017.
Owner of the source	Institut Bohuslava Martinů
Former owner	- Soukromý vlastník, Private owner
Call number at IBM	TerG 2009-06-17

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Content	Geraldine Mucha writes as a follow-up to the phone conversation with Gregory Terian. The Czech and Slovak folk songs were not chosen at random but for their words which then become the coded message. Walter Susskind did all the instrumental arrangements, the piano arrangements were done, and accompaniments played, by GM. When Otto (Otakar Kraus) joined ENSA, he sang under the name of Karel Otakar and it was found that he had a heart condition. His wife Máňa (Marie Krausová) had a job as a secretary in the Czech goverment-in-exile. She knows from Jiří Mucha that the rather unusual scoreing of the FIELD MASS, H 279, was dictated entirely by the situation of the time. JM gave Bohuslav Martinů a rough sketch, and before he could shape it properly, the music was written using the rough sketch. GM didn't meet JM until he reached England in 1941. She remembers Vilouš Tauský arriving in battle dress to conduct TRE RICERCARI, H 267, with no time for rehearsal.
Total number of leaves	1
Number of pages bearing text	1
Note	Written on a letterhead of the Mucha Foundation.
Fixation	pen
Markings	inscription probably in Terian's hand: "Epitaph \| String quintet & oboe"

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Quality of digitisation	Not professional colour
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Kraus, Otakar

Krausová, Marie

Martinů, Bohuslav

Mucha, Jiří

Süsskind, Hans Walter

Tauský, Vilém

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Entertainments National Service Association

Vláda ČSR

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Field Mass, H 279

Tre Ricercari, H 267

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