General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderHonzl, Jindřich
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationPrague
Send date09.04.1950
RecipientMartinů, Bohuslav
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationNew York, NY
LanguageCzech
Acquiredcopy from the estate of Jindřich Honzl, 09/2018
Owner of the source- Soukromý vlastník, Private owner
Call number at IBMHonJ 1950-04-09
Content and physical description
ContentJindřich Honzl has returned to Prague and asks whether Bohuslav Martinů has received a letter from Karlovy Vary and whether he has found Krečinský's Wedding in the library. He sends him translations of the author's plays that have now been published in this country. JH asks BM to send the medicine which JH had from Switzerland and which he cannot get because of currency difficulties. He hopes that the matter of royalties for the performance of his works in this country has been settled. He would like to know the development of BM's ideas on the opera theme. There are discussions about this in this country - the first place is to give opera a contemporary theme, the second place is the themes of Czech classics, the third place is Soviet playwrights and Russian classics; this applies to drama and opera.
Total number of leaves2
Number of pages bearing text3
Notethis is a carbon copy; in the estate of Jindřich Honzl is attached a typewritten transcription
Fixationtypescript, handwritten signature
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Date of digitisation09/2018

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Person as subject
Gogol, Nikolaj Vasiljevič
Gorkij, Maxim
Jirásek, Alois
Klicpera, Václav Kliment
Novák, Vítězslav
Ostrovskij, Alexandr Nikolajevič
Suchovo-Kobylin, Alexandr Vasiljevič
Tyl, Josef Kajetán
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