General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationPrague
Note on Sender‘s locationVinohrady, Žižkova 10
Send date1922
Send date note[May ? 1922]; [11. 5. 1922 was sent response to this letter]
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 number477/69
Call number at IBMAVČR 1922-00-00
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů asks for permission to set Julius Zeyer's merry play Old History to music. He names his achievements to date. For CZECH RAPSODY he received the Second Grand Prize of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in 1921 he received a prize from the Havelka Fund for MAGICAL NIGHTS and a prize from the Chamber Music Society for [SMITH] QUARTET [No. 1]. This season the National Theatre will present the dance poem ISTAR. The libretto of OLD HISTORY is in charge of the editor of the Tribune, J[osef] Kodicek.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text2
NoteČAVU fund, document nr. 501-700
FixationManuscript
MarkingsReply [AVČR 1922-05-11] to Martinů´s letter on the other side of the paper
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atAVČR
Date of digitisation2017

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Person as subject
Kodíček, Josef
Vrba, Karel
Zeyer, Julius
Corporation as subject
Česká filharmonie
Český spolek pro komorní hudbu
Fond dvorního rady Matěje rytíře Havelky
Národní divadlo v Praze
Tribuna
Composition as subject
Czech Rhapsody, H 118
Istar [auth.], H 130
Magic Nights [auth.], H 119
String Quartet No. 1, H 117
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