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Type of the document	Letter
Sender	Kaprálová, Vítězslava
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Sender‘s location	Paris
Note on Sender‘s location	[Paris]
Send date	21.12.1937
Send date note	according to Karla Hartl [21. 12. 1937]
Recipient	Kaprálová, Vítězslava st.
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Recipient‘s location	Brno
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 1937-12-21

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Vítězslava Kaprálová writes to her parents about the pre-Christmas rush of presents, trying to find the necessary sheet music for school, visiting the museum with Josef Páleníček, studying the score of Luisa, which she and Líba Houžvičková subsequently visited, and attending a sumptuous reception held in honour of the Czechoslovak army, to which they were invited by JP. [Štefan] Osuský and his family were also there, as was [Miloš] Šafránek. VK goes to Aleon's classes. Karel Šebánek promised to send her his April Preludes for proofreading in January and also arranged for her to conduct in the south. Miloš Jirko sent her a dedication poem "To the Old Flag". Bohuslav Martinů wrote letters to [Darius] Milhaud and [Ernest] Ansermet. BM is due back after the first of January. He told her that he writes all songs, so VK is trying to work on a trio [for wind instruments] which is terribly modern and together it only goes polyphonic.

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small drawings added to the text of the letter; 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. 106-110

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