General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationSchönenberg, Pratteln
Send date26.10.1957
RecipientNovák, Jan
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationBrno
Note on Recipient‘s locationBrno, Žižkova ulice 1
LanguageCzech
Acquiredcopy from Czech Museum of Music, Jan Novák collection, 2019
Owner of the sourceČeské muzeum hudby
Call number at IBMNovJ 1957-10-26
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů thanks for the letters. He thought that Jan and Eliška Novák were walking around Venice and he was sorry that they had not been allowed to go to Italy. BM thanks for the report on the THREE LIGHTS HOORAH. They have a new radio so hopefully he will hear it sometime. Moravan certainly sings it well. As for the opera [apparently MIRANDOLINA], BM can't send the score, it's being directed by Boosey & Hawkes who have had it for two years and nothing has happened yet. But BM doesn't want to put his fingers in it because he has to do with the PASSIONS. JN is to tell [Jiri] Pinkas that he has to deal with B&H or Artia. B&H will want the PM not to be behind the curtain [i.e. they will want her in the West] but why they have not arranged it by now is a mystery. Let Elishka Novakova play the Clavier Sonata, BM doesn't know if [Rudolf] Serkin has performed it yet, but it doesn't matter, he's had it long enough and could have performed it already. It will be published in print in Paris. They shouldn't give Novak a copy out of hand. BM asks if some passages are not badly played and asks JN to send him any corrections so that BM can have them already put into print. Both BM and ChM are recovering from the flu they caught in Paris. They would surely get material for both GENEITBA and THE Cobbler [WHAT PEOPLE LIVE BY] in Brno, but let them not change their titles. For Gogol, the right title should be Courtship [ŽENITBA]. But for The Shoemaker, it should be WHAT PEOPLE LIVE BY, not THE TALE OF THE SHEVITZ.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Fixationtypescript and handwritten signature
Attachmentsenvelope attached
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atCzech Museum of Music
Date of digitisation2019

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Location as subject
Venice
Brno
Paris
Prague
Person as subject
Gogol, Nikolaj Vasiljevič
Martinů, Charlotte
Nováková, Eliška
Pinkas, Jiří
Serkin, Rudolf
Corporation as subject
Artia, Praha
Boosey & Hawkes
Moravan
Composition as subject
What Men Live by [auth.], H 336
Mount of Three Lights [auth.], H 349
Mirandolina, H 346
The Greek Passion, 1st version, H 372 I
The Greek Passion, 2nd version, H 372 II
Sonata for Piano, H 350
The Marriage [auth.], H 341
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