General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationSchönenberg - Pratteln
Send date04.01.1958
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 1958-01-04
Content and physical description
ContentIn the new year, Bohuslav Martinů summarizes all his complaints and unresolved issues aimed at Ernest Roth (Boosey & Hawkes, London). BM asks what's going on with the opera MIRANDOLINA, he hasn't even seen the piano score, which should have been done a long time ago. He asks the ER to clarify this matter.
BM is bombarded with letters from Brno with demands for a premiere. BM heard that a theater in Germany (perhaps Frankfurt) had asked David Diamond to write Locandiera, which worries him.
BM asks what happened to the piano concerts and whether they are ready to release them (ER states in the answer from 3.3.58 that they have only PIANO CONCERT No. 3).
BM asks ER for a clear statement, whether they are still interested in his work and what their next plans are, this situation is for BM not advantageous.
BM asks about the fate of SYMPHONY No. 2 and 3, which are still unreleased for an unknown reason. BM regrets that it is not possible to publish the pocket version of SYMPHONY No. 6 and points out that he received only 2 copies of this score.
BM asks if both operas MARRIAGE and WHAT MAN LIVE BY are without a chance of success ("dead duck").
BM asks for these issues to be solved as soon as possible and wishes all the best in 1958.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
FixationTypescript; handwritten signature
Letter

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Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atBritish Library
Date of digitisation12/2019
Person as subject
Diamond, David
Composition as subject
What Men Live by [auth.], H 336
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3, H 316
Mirandolina, H 346
Symphony No. 2, H 295
Symphony No. 3 [auth.], H 299
Symphony No. 6 (Fantaisies Symphoniques), H 343
The Marriage [auth.], H 341
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