General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationParis
Send date24.09.1956
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 1956-09-24c
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů regrets that he didn't get to meet Ernst Roth the whole holiday again. BM does not understand what is happening at B&H - those interested in SYMPHONY No. 6 are obviously receiving negative answers from the publisher, while the contract was signed already in 1952 (or 53) and it should be in B&H's interest to have this successful composition on market.
Charles Munch has performed it with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Munich, Paris and several concerts in the USA, but the score is still not on the market. If B&H is not interested, BM wants it back.
ER should inform BM in this matter. There are other compositions that lie uselessly in a B&H drawer.
BM is leaving for Rome next week. He attaches his address.
Total number of leaves2
Number of pages bearing text2
FixationTypescript; handwritten signature
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atBritish Library
Date of digitisation12/2019

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Location as subject
Munich
Paris
Rome
USA
Person as subject
Munch, Charles
Münch, Hans
Corporation as subject
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Composition as subject
Symphony No. 6 (Fantaisies Symphoniques), H 343
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