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Type of the document	Letter
Sender	Jirák, Karel Boleslav
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Send date	16.01.1949
Recipient	Martinů, Bohuslav
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Language	Czech
Acquired	gift from Blanka Jiráková donated to Martinů Foundation in 1990s; returned to the Foundation library from K. Maýrová in 2018
Owner of the source	Nadace Bohuslava Martinů
Former owner	- Soukromý vlastník, Private owner
Call number at IBM	JirK 1949-01-16

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Content	According to what Bohuslav Martinů wrote about Princeton University, Karel Boleslav Jirák assumes that BM did not accept a professorship in Prague. The KBJ has reports of how in the Czechoslovakia, listeners decided on composers and professors, forbidding the writing of symphonies and sonatas and prescribing vocal and programmatic works. [Boleslav] Vomáčka announces a cantata with a procession of harmonicas. How would that fit BM? KBJ congratulates on the Chicago success of CONCERT FOR TWO PIANOES and on the performance of the new SMITH QUARTET he read about in Svornost. KBJ begins composing again, and it will be a 5th symphony (he is an incorrigible "formalist"). KBJ asks BM if and how he is paid royalties from CSR for performances and published works. Is BM a member of the Composers Syndicate or the League of Composers? KBJ has not yet received any royalties. He needs the money in CSR for payments there. Did BM receive the magazine that KBJ sent him? [Rudolf] Firkušný is to write when he will be in Chicago. KBJ is already in written contact with [Jan] Löwenbach.
Total number of leaves	2
Number of pages bearing text	2
Note	carbon copy of the sent letter
Fixation	handwriting

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Quality of digitisation	Not professional colour
Digitized at	IBM
Date of digitisation	2018

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Czechoslovakia

Chicago, Illinois

Prague

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Firkušný, Rudolf

Jiráková, Blanka

Löwenbach, Jan

Vomáčka, Boleslav

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Hudební matice Umělecké besedy

League of Composers

Ochranný svaz autorský pro práva k dílům hudebním

Princeton University

Svornost

Syndikát českých skladatelů

Composition as subject

Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, H 292

String Quartet No. 7 (Concerto da camera), H 314

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