General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationNew York, NY
Send date13.03.1956
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 1956-03-13
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů writes to Jan Novák that being a Padre, as JN calls him, is quite a responsibility. Mozart also had a Padre. [William] Yeats was partly right. If BM had known [Leoš] Janáček before, he would certainly have imitated him, but if he didn't do it then, he must do it now. That JN left the quartet need not make him sorry. JN maintains a resistance position and deals with musical problems, which is good, but BM would like JN to also put in music sometime as he split wood and added to the stove. That would warm the heart. Nonet and quartet etc is when one sits at the piano and wrestles with musical problems, but sometimes it's good to get out. JN shouldn't force Eliska [Novak] to play only BM all the time so she doesn't get tired.
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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Person as subject
Martini, Giovanni Battista
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Nováková, Eliška
Yeats, William Butler
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