General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationNew York, NY
Send date30.01.1956
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 1956-01-30
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů thanks Eliška [Nováková] for playing his FANTASIA [probably meaning FANTASIA AND TOCCATA]. Only now have the letter, picture and programme arrived. BM spoke with [David] Oistrakh, he in Czech, DO in Russian, and they agreed. Perhaps they had recovered from the OPENING of the STUDIOS. Jan Novak did the chat nicely, a little bit in the American way. BM is working and getting his bags ready for a longer stay in Europe and perhaps Czechoslovakia. Somewhere someone is writing to him to come, so there is no avoiding it. It all depends on the weather. JN is to write letters legibly and give an account of his musical activities. Greetings to [Zdeněk] Zouhar and EN, who associates with powerful gentlemen like [Karel] Šebánek. It took him a while to listen to BM, who wrote to Šebánek about JN years ago. [Miloš] Šafránek considers JN the best composer of our time, after Martinů, about whom he is writing a biography.
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
Czechoslovakia
Person as subject
Nováková, Eliška
Oistrach, David
Šafránek, Miloš
Šebánek, Karel
Zouhar, Zdeněk
Composition as subject
Fantasy and Toccata, H 281
The Opening of the Springs / The Opening of the Wells, H 354
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