General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationPolička
Send date15.02.1920
Recipient
Recipient (corporation)Česká akademie věd a umění
Recipient‘s locationPrague
LanguageCzech
AcquiredCopy from Czech Academy of Sciences Archive, 2017
Owner of the sourceMasarykův ústav a Archiv Akademie věd ČR
Owner‘s call number474/69
Call number at IBMAVČR 1920-02-15
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů asks for support for his further compositional activity and thanks for the support in 1919. He encloses a cycle of piano pieces Preludes? and a list of compositions written in the past year, with their performances. A LITTLE DANCE SUITE and NIPPONARI will be performed by the Czech Philharmonic. [Stanislav] Novák will perform with K[arl] Šolc the HOUSEL SONATA in C major. UKOLÉBAVKY will be performed at the Chamber Society and the ballet NOC at the National Theatre. Not yet commissioned is the score of A MAGICAL NIGHT dedicated to Theo-Drill Oridge. He is currently working on a full-length opera [WINDOWS TO THE WOODS] to a text by Jan Havlasa.
Total number of leaves2
Number of pages bearing text2
NoteČAVU fund, inv. nr. 128, cart. nr. 91, sign. 3.B; published in Maýrová, Kateřina. Korespondence Bohuslava Martinů s ČAVU, Hudební věda 2000, XXXVII, nr. 1-2
FixationManuscript
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atAVČR
Date of digitisation2017

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Location as subject
Hamburg
Person as subject
Bethge, Hans
Drill-Oridge, Theo
Havlasa, Jan
Novák, Stanislav
Šolc, Karel
Corporation as subject
Česká filharmonie
Český spolek pro komorní hudbu
Národní divadlo v Praze
Národní osvěta
Staatsoper Hamburg
Composition as subject
Magic Nights [auth.], H 119
Little Dance Suite, H 123
Nipponari, H 68
The Night, H 89
Windows into the Mist, H 124ter
String Quartet No. 1, H 117
Sonata in C Major for Violin and Piano, H 120
Lullabies, H 114
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