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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	02.02.1938
Send date note	according to Karla Hartl the letter was written [1.–2. 2. 1938]
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 1938-02-02

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Vítězslava Kaprálová is glad that he [Václav Kaprál from the hospital] is home and writes to his parents about the peripeteia with the forgotten score of the Piano Concerto, the April Preludes and the songs in Taxi. She played them for [Josef] Páleníček. She reflects on the honesty of the Parisians. On Thursday she attended a concert where Bohuslav Martinů was a great success. She sat next to him. On Friday she was on the radio to hear Martinů's CONCERT FOR VIOLIN AND FLUTE WITH ORCHESTRA [H 252], which she liked better than the CONCERT FOR VIOLONCELLO [AND ORCHESTRA No. 1,H 196]. On Saturday she was at the Enstitut Slava where they were rehearsing a talk. They will still have a lot of work to do with it. On Sunday she was with BM in the café in the evening, where he told her the contents of JULIETTY. She's going to be very interesting. The Corporals are supposed to listen to it on the radio. Monday she worked and was at Triton in the evening where they played modern composers, but she didn't like it. She won't be sending anything to [Gracian] Blacky yet. She doesn't want to promote herself like Mrs. [Julie] Reiser, who is always in the papers. She will write her biography for [Alois] Hába. She has rejected her Trio. She's not satisfied with the instrumental side of it. She would not have applied it in Paris now anyway, because it has already been accepted for performance in the TRIO [FOR FLUTE, HOUSEL AND FAGOT, H 265] BM. It would have been risky to put two Czechoslovak trios side by side (although VK claims that he would have paid the price). So BM suggested that she write something for Triton, a small ensemble. He is thinking of publishing 6 small Variations on the Bells of the Church of St. Etien du Mont near Eschik. She will finish the Ballade. BM says it is her best composition. She has re-enrolled with Aleon as she will be rehearsing with him at the end of the year.

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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. 135-136

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