General information
Type of the document Letter, List of Works, Varia
SenderMartinů, rodina v Poličce
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationPolička
Send date1955
Send date note[after September 1955]
RecipientŠebánek, Karel
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationPrague
Note on Recipient‘s location[Prague]
LanguageCzech
AcquiredA copy from the Bohuslav Martinů Center in Polička; Karel Šebánek's estate; 09/2018.
Owner of the sourceCentrum Bohuslava Martinů v Poličce
Former owner- Soukromý vlastník, Private owner
Call number at IBMŠeb 1955-00-00
Content and physical description
ContentAt the same time he writes back to Karel Šebánek's first letter in which he asks for some scores. VZPOURA NOT is the property of the Brno Theatre, they already had the score at home but wanted it back. WHO'S THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL is at the National Theatre in Prague - maybe the KS theatres would lend the scores. Only THE BUTTERFLY are at home. He must add to the attached inventory [see Appendix] that he has everything in a safe deposit box at the Savings Bank, he doesn't remember exactly what is in the manuscript and it is difficult to search through the Savings Bank - so if KS needs anything from the listed pieces, he should write and they will go there to look it up. Among other things, there are about 22 notebooks of "SERENAD" - they don't think that's a manuscript, then 25-30 notebooks of "LITTLE DANCE SUITE", which KS himself sent and whose score is probably with Mr. [Miloš] Šafránek? Here are just the voices. Bohuslav Martinů often writes them in a good mood and with an appetite for work. On Sunday they [the family in Polička] had a visit of 4 BM admirers from Brno. BM had correspondence with one of them, Prof. [Zdeněk] Zouhar. They were enthusiastic, they were going to give a concert in Brno on 8.12. - only Polička was silent.In Brno they gave TŘI ČESKÉ DANCE on 31.10. and V. SYMFONIA on 21.10. MM asks KS to write to her which verse in the HYMN TO SAINT JAMES is faulty, so that they can alert the author in time.

(Attachments: track list; text of HYMN TO SAINT JAMES; BM's notes on the HYMN; cf. Attachments)
Total number of leaves1 + 1 + 1 + 1
Number of pages bearing text2 + 2 + 2 + 1
NoteWritten by Marie Martinů.
FixationManuscript
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atCBM
Date of digitisation2018

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Person as subject
Martinů, Bohuslav
Martinů, Marie
Sádlo, Miloš
Šafránek, Miloš
Zouhar, Zdeněk
Corporation as subject
Národní divadlo Brno
Národní divadlo v Praze
Composition as subject
Angel of Death, H 17
Ballad, H 56
Ballad on Böcklin´s Painting “Villa by the Sea”, H 97
Ballade, H 24
Barcarolle, H 326
Czech Rhapsody, H 118
Chanson Triste, H 36
Concertino for Piano and Orchestra, H 269
Wind Quintet, H 187
Theatre Behind the Gate, H 251
Two Songs to the Texts of Negro Folk-Poetry, H 232bis
Fantasia, H 180
The Plays of Mary, H 236
Hymn to St. James, H 347
Intermezzo, H 261
Inventions [auth.], H 234
Piano Quintet, H 35
Puppets III, H 92
Little Dance Suite, H 123
The Butterfly that Stamped [auth.], H 153
Nipponari, H 68
The Night, H 89
Nocturne No. 1 , H 91
New Chap-Book, H 288
Field Mass, H 279
The Village Feast, H 2
Seven Arabesques, H 201
A Dream of the Past, H 124
Tears of the Knife, H 169
Death of Tintagiles, H 15
String Quartet, H 60
Sonata in C Major for Violin and Piano, H 120
Sonatina for Two Violins and Piano, H 198
The Chap-Book, 1st version, H 214 I
The Chap-Book, 2nd version, H 214 II
The Shadow, H 102
Symphony No. 5 [auth.], H 310
Three Czech Dances [auth.], H 324
Three Czech Dances, H 154
Three Melodramas, H 84
Three Melodramas, H 83
Three Melodramas, H 82
Three Wishes or Life’s Vicissitudes, H 175
The Soldier and the Dancer, H 162
From Andersen’s Fairy-Tales, H 42
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