General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderKaprálová, Vítězslava
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationParis
Note on Sender‘s location12 Square Alboni
Send date31.01.1940
Send date note[date was deduced according to further correspondence]
RecipientDeutsch, Pavel
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationLausanne
Note on Recipient‘s location[Lausanne]
LanguageCzech
Acquiredcopy from edition of the letters of Vítězslava Kaprálová published in book Dopisy přátelům a jiná korespondence z let 1935-1940 (ed. Karla Hartl), 2019
Owner of the source- Soukromý vlastník, Private owner
Call number at IBMDeu 1940-01-31
Content and physical description
ContentVítězslava Kaprálová read with pleasure the letter from Pavel Deutsch, but her initial enthusiasm was spoiled by the fact that they were all good musicians in Agde. She should therefore have forwarded the letter to Wilý Tauský, the bandmaster of the Brno and Agde orchestras, but she would have been sorry. Only an orchestra of pianists could be assembled. But then there is the problem of impossible people [in the organisational field]. On Friday the programme at the Opera Comique was to include Carneval, Martenot's Waves, Moravian Double Songs and then Richard Strauss. After her article and the intervention of Bohuslav Martinů, only foreign composers are on the programme. On Sunday her April Preludes were played with success at the Triton by Rudolf Firkušný. It was also broadcast by radio, as was her Symfonietta to be broadcast over Prague on 8 February. According to a report from home, all is well there so far. But there is a problem with the letters that are being sent back. BM has already written to PD twice and has not yet received a reply. The gift from PD has also not arrived yet. His letter has once again strengthened it in the fight for good music promotion. What does he suggest for the announced concert with an all Czech and French program performed by the orchestra, RF and Otakar Kraus? He is now working on two piano dances for RF and is thinking of a title. Does he have any ideas? She doesn't like "Czech dances", she would like something like BOROVÁ BM.
Total number of leaves2
Number of pages bearing text1
NotePublished in edition of the letters of Vítězslava Kaprálová in book Dopisy přátelům a jiná korespondence z let 1935-1940 (ed. Karla Hartl), page 71-72
FixationHandwriting
Attachmentscopy of the flown cover
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Date of digitisation2013
Note on digitisationcopy from Gregory Dayton-Mohl

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Location as subject
Agde
Brno
Prague
Switzerland
Person as subject
Bořkovec, Pavel
Dvořák, Antonín
Firkušný, Rudolf
Herlingerová, Růžena
Kraus, Otakar
Krausová, Marie
Martinů, Bohuslav
Roussel, Albert
Stark, Harald
Strauss, Richard
Stravinskij, Igor
Süsskind, Hans Walter
Tauský, Vilém
Corporation as subject
Opéra Comique
Triton
Composition as subject
Borová, H 195
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