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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	09.03.1939
Send date note	[March 9, 1939]
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 1939-03-09

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Vítězslava Kaprálová apologizes for the delay of the letter. She had a cold again just as [Auguste Mangeot, with whom she wanted to discuss the question of her schooling] returned. The partita is 'at her throat again'. She is working on the first movement again, but Bohuslav Martinů is still not happy with it. "What I write one day, he crosses out the next, there can't be a worse school." She is not working on any new composition, but has chosen a libretto by [Nikolai Vasilyevich] Gogol. Vítězslava Kapralova Sr. should come to Paris as soon as the weather is warmer. It is uncertain about the Martinů's stay at the Three Pumps [Wells], they are about to move. The Kapráls are to rent a room and if the Martins arrive, they will somehow move in together upstairs. VK insists that no master's [school of the Prague Conservatoire] will be cancelled, that BM is already occupied.

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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. 224-225

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

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Tři Studně

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Gogol, Nikolaj Vasiljevič

Kaprál, Václav

Kvapil, Jaroslav

Mangeot, Auguste

Martinů, Bohuslav

Martinů, Charlotte

Novák, Vítězslav

Nováková (Prášková), Marie

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École Normale de Musique de Paris

Mistrovská škola pražské konzervatoře

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