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Type of the document	Letter
Sender	Kaprálová, Vítězslava
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Sender‘s location	Paris
Send date	19.02.1938
Send date note	according to Karla Hartl [February 18 and 19, 1938]
Recipient	Kaprálová, Vítězslava st.
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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 1938-02-19

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Vítězslava Kaprálová describes her daily schedule, in which she now has four times a week from 3:30 to 5:30 (up to five hours) with Bohuslav Martinů (on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays). He gives a schedule of the concert they are rehearsing and critiques Monday's concert at Triton. She also attended an interesting lecture by [František?] Kupka on the young French intelligentsia. She wrote to the Women's Council. Next year BM would like VK to conduct [TRE] RICERCARI at Triton, which he is working on. Something by VK could be performed at the same time. Yesterday [18 Feb] VK composed a Love Carol based on BM's draft of the Love Carol which appeared in Eve. VK claimed she would write a better one than BM's lacking melody. BM really likes her carol, he played it all afternoon yesterday. VK is thinking of giving it as a wedding present to Renata [Helfert-Trtílková], but she has to ask BM's permission because she used his melody in it. On Monday she will send them both the Carol and the Bells [Variations on the Bells of St-Etienne-du-Mont Church] to sample, but they are due back soon so she can work on [their] publication. BM wanted to correct them for her, but VK resisted. She and Martine will apply for a scholarship for next year, which she is very keen on. [Alois] Hába still asks her to analyze [the Military Symphony]. She will send her new photographs on Monday.

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the end of the letter is missing; 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. 140-141

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