General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderJirák, Karel Boleslav
Sender (corporation)
Send date06.11.1948
RecipientMartinů, Bohuslav
Recipient (corporation)
LanguageCzech
Acquiredgift from Blanka Jiráková donated to Martinů Foundation in 1990s; in 2018 returned to the library from K. Maýrová
Owner of the sourceNadace Bohuslava Martinů
Former owner- Soukromý vlastník, Private owner
Call number at IBMJirK 1948-11-06
Content and physical description
ContentKarel Boleslav Jirák writes to Bohuslav Martinů that he has moved. He is interested in news from home and Europe. KBJ listened to a speech by Petr Zenkl. KBJ and his wife are now "displaced persons" and so are in the US legally and repatriation is not in sight. [Otakar] Šourek wrote to KBJ that BM had been appointed professor at the Academy of Performing Arts along with [Pavel] Bořkovec and [Jaroslav] Řídky. How will BM decide? KBJ is still persona non grata, although he was also appointed under [Josef] Hutter. In the end, [Anna] Patzáková put [Boleslav] Vomáček, a great communist and an old friend of KBJ, there, but he didn't even answer the letter. KBJ met with [Charles] Munch, as BM had advised. BM is to remind KBJ if they meet. After the scandal with [Arthur] Rodzinski there will now be a series of good gigs with Munch and [Bruno] Walter. The orchestra is better than the New York Philharmonic with [Leopold] Stokowski. The KBJ doesn't need the music of [Olivier] Messiaen and [Aram] Khachaturian. Wouldn't BM know how to help the great organist Bedřich Janáček, who has fled to Sweden but is not safe there? Greetings to [Rudolf] Firkušný.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text2
Noteconcept of the sent letter
Fixationhandwriting
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atIBM
Date of digitisation2018

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Location as subject
Sweden
Person as subject
Bořkovec, Pavel
Chačaturjan, Aram
Firkušný, Rudolf
Hutter, Josef
Janáček, Bedřich
Messiaen, Olivier
Munch, Charles
Patzaková, Anna
Řídký, Jaroslav
Rodziński, Artur
Šourek, Otakar
Stokowski, Leopold
Vomáčka, Boleslav
Walter, Bruno
Zenkl, Petr
Corporation as subject
Akademie múzických umění v Praze
New York Philharmonic
Orchestre national de France
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