General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationNice
Send date03.10.1953
RecipientMihalovici, Marcel
Recipient (corporation)
LanguageFrench
Language 2English
AcquiredCopy from Gilles Corbi collection
Owner of the source- Soukromý vlastník, Private owner
Call number at IBMMihM 1953-10-03
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů thanks Marcel Mihalovici for his illegible letter, which confirms his sense of form. He is on the beach and praises his stay here, which is a paradise, except that he has not found a piano to rent. He had to buy one for a modest sum, so the sound of the instrument is also very modest. Annoyingly, he needs a piano to compose his pieces and admits that if he were a dodecaphonist he would not need an instrument. BM participated in the strike and therefore wrote no notes. He is also going to do battle with French, which he finds very annoying. He hasn't started yet and is expecting trouble, preferring to write in Czech where the accent is always on the first syllable and so he can't get it wrong. In any case, he will get to work on composing the opera [A PLEA AGAINST THE UNKNOWN] as soon as this letter is written. He sends his regards to Monique and George and also to Tibor [Harsányi] and [Mayka?].
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text2
FixationHandwriting
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationProfessional

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Location as subject
Paris
Vieux-Moulin
Person as subject
Haas, Monique
Harsányi, Tibor
Martinů, Charlotte
Corporation as subject
Heugel Et Compagnie
Composition as subject
Accusation Against the Unknown, H 344
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