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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	15.01.1938
Send date note	according to Karla Hartl the letter was written in days [14.-15. 1. 1938]
Recipient	Kaprálová, Vítězslava st.
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Recipient‘s location	Brno
Note on Recipient‘s location	[Brno]
Language	Czech
Language 2	French
Acquired	copy from Karla Hartl edition: Vítězslava Kaprálová, Dopisy domů. Korespondence rodičům z let 1935-1940; 2019
Call number at IBM	KapV 1938-01-15

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Vítězslava Kapralová thanks her parents for their letter. He must always read interesting passages to Bohuslav Martinů. BM will probably go with her to England [to London to perform her Symphonie] [instead of Václav Kaprál]. [Eduard] Munch did not help her with Istar. BM doesn't know what to do with it either. In the last class they were photographed at school and VK is sitting right next to ChM. With BM's help, she tried to get hold of Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Haydn in the shops in Paris, but no luck. Yesterday BM helped her dispel doubts about her Ballade [Ilena], which she had wanted to dismiss. According to BM, it is much more successful than the Prelude she played for him on the piano before. Instead of going to Aleon, VK is taking lessons with a young Swiss girl. VK has been given the task of rehearsing the choirs, the Moravian Word and one dance number for the opening of the new travel agency for the CSR. Tomorrow he is going on a trip with Madame [Betz], Líba [Houžvička] and Gaston [Madame's son].

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small drawings and short score excerpt are included in this 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. 123-124

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Quality of digitisation	Not professional black-and-white
Date of digitisation	2019

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Switzerland

Tři Studně

United Kingdom

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Aleon,

Brahms, Johannes

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Houžvičková, Líba

Kaprál, Václav

Martinů, Bohuslav

Munch, Charles

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