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Type of the document	Letter
Sender	Kaprálová, Vítězslava
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Sender‘s location	Paris
Send date	04.11.1937
Send date note	date October 5, 1937 written by Kaprálová was changed by Karla Hartl according to context of the letter to [4. 11.] 1937
Recipient	Kaprálová, Vítězslava st.
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Note on Recipient‘s location	[Brno]
Language	Czech
Acquired	copy from Karla Hartl edition: Vítězslava Kaprálová, Dopisy domů. Korespondence rodičům z let 1935-1940; 2019
Call number at IBM	KapV 1937-11-04

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Vítězslava Kaprálová writes to her parents after her first conducting lesson with Charles Munch. She was warmly received. After the lesson, they were still discussing her Military Symphony. VK solves problems with accommodation and meals. On Tuesday [Nov. 2] she had dinner at [Bohuslav and Charlotte] Martin's and then went to a concert conducted by [Fritz] Munch where BM introduced her to many people. The next day VK, accompanied by BM, went to the École Normale to enrol in a conducting course with ChM. She has not yet signed up for Nadia Boulanger's composition and instrumentation course because of her poor French and too much time. Tomorrow VK and BM are going to the [Czechoslovak] Embassy to see [Miloš] Šafránek. BM wants to introduce her to a number of people. She and BM will be correcting each other's compositions. She will give him the Concerto grosso and he will give her [Farewell and] Shatecek. VK is taking French lessons at the Alliance Française.

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published in: HARTL, Karla (ed.): Vítězslava Kaprálová, Dopisy domů. Korespondence rodičům z let 1935-1940, The Kapralova Society, Toronto 2015, ISBN 978-0-9940425-0-7, pg. 92-93

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