General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationSchönenberg, Pratteln
Send date16.03.1958
RecipientRoth, Ernst
Recipient (corporation)Boosey & Hawkes, London
Recipient‘s locationLondon
Note on Recipient‘s location[London]
LanguageEnglish
AcquiredCopy from British Library, Boosey & Hawkes Archives, 12/2019
Owner of the sourceBritish Library
Former ownerBoosey & Hawkes, London
Owner‘s call numberMs Mus. 1813/2/1/73/5. Martinu, 1958
Call number at IBMBH 1958-03-16
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů thanks Ernst Roth for accepting his propositions and will return the materials for MIRONADLINA and PIANO CONCERT No. 3. He asks him to send everything to his current address, including a confirmation from the copyright department.
BM asks if ER knows where his PIANO CONCERT No. 2 is. If they have (Boosey & Hawkes, London) any other manuscripts or mastersheets, BM wants them sent as well, they should have been returned a long time ago.
BM also asks for a copy of Rossini's Variations for Cello and Piano. He's sorry ER didn't like MIRANDOLINA.
Post scriptum BM asks to send one copy of WHAT PEOPLE LIVE BY (note "vocal score") and the score COMEDY ON THE BRIDGE (note: "how much?").
Transcription of the letter

March 16. 1958



Dear Ernest:

Thank you for your prompte answer, I am glad that you accepted my propositions concerning Locandiera and the third Piano concerto. Please, send me everything at my present address

And also the confirmation from your Copyright Dep.

Where is the Second Piano concerto, do you know? Do you have some others Manuscript-mastersheets? Send them to me too.

You should have give me everything back already longtime ago.

Could you send me also one copy of the Rossini variations for cello and piano?

And [!]. Am sorry that you didn’t like the opera.

With my best wishes and regards.

Sincerely 

yours



B. Martinu

Schonenberg.

Prattelm. Switzrland.



[Podpis v.r.:] B. Martinů



If you could send me also one copy of What men live by and orchestra acore of Comedy on the bridge I will be glad.



[Poznámka tužkou v dolní části:] vocal-score; ? how many


Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
NoteNote in pencil at the bottom: "vocal score; ? how many"
Passages underlined in pencil in the text
FixationTypescript; handwritten signature
MarkingsPencil
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atBritish Library
Date of digitisation12/2019

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Person as subject
Rossini, Giachino
Composition as subject
What Men Live by [auth.], H 336
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2, H 237
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3, H 316
Mirandolina, H 346
Comedy on the Bridge, H 247
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