General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationNew York, NY
Send date12.04.1950
RecipientHonzl, Jindřich
Recipient (corporation)
LanguageCzech
AcquiredCopy from the estate of Jindřich Honzl, 09/2018
Owner of the source- Soukromý vlastník, Private owner
Call number at IBMHonJ 1950-04-12
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů thanks for both letters [of 14 February and 9 April 1950], and will try to find the remedy. There are certainly possibilities of performing JULIETTE and other operas in the USA. He has finally received his score of JULIETTE. He asks Henry Honzl if there would be any possibility of ND lending him or a certain company their orchestral material for a fee. He has not yet had the opportunity to think about the subject of the opera in particular; he is somewhat distant from the idea described by JH, although he understands its importance in our current life. BM doesn't know if he'll be looking for something - there's a big gap between his feelings and the current situation in the US. He saw a note somewhere that intrigued him, probably about a novel by Dostoevsky - A Funny Man's Dream. He had never seen or read it, but JH might know something about it.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
NoteIn 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
Dostojevskij, Fjodor Michajlovič
Jirásek, Alois
Musorgskij, Modest Petrovič
Neruda, Jan
Rubeš, František Jaromír
Corporation as subject
Národní divadlo v Praze
Composition as subject
Juliette (The Key to Dreams), H 253
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