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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	28.04.1939
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 1939-04-28

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Vítězslava Kaprálová complains about delayed correspondence. She is working a lot now, already writing the third movement of XY [Concertina for violin, clarinet and orchestra]. Yesterday she had dinner with [Jiří] Mucha, [Ludvík] Kundera and [Edgar] Hauner, and afterwards they were looking for an apartment for M+K [?] and [Rudolf] Firkušný. Neither she nor Bohuslav Martinů could help [Pavel] Haas in any way, unless he played the piano somewhere or collaborated on something for the film with his brother [Hugo Haas]. There are a lot of unemployed people in Paris now. They are waiting anxiously to hear what [Adolf] Hitler will say today. Yesterday [he and BM] went to see [Charles] Munch, but they didn't arrange anything because he no longer has his orchestra and only conducts at the conservatory. She wrote a letter of thanks to the Pešek Quartet [for the performance of her quartet], [Břetislav] Bakala is to be told personally. BM joins in VK's greetings and tells them not to worry about her.

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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. 239

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