General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationNice
Note on Sender‘s location[Nice]
Send date12.10.1958
RecipientVaněk, Vladimír
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationRome
Note on Recipient‘s location[Rome]
LanguageCzech
AcquiredCopy from V. Vaněk papers at Czech Foreign Affairs Ministry Archive, 2021
Owner of the sourceArchiv Ministerstva zahraničních věcí ČR
Call number at IBMVanV 1958-10-12
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů did not receive a reply from Vladimír Vaněk to his previous letter, so he writes again on a new typewriter. Did VV hear Gilgamesh's broadcast from Turin? Martinů caught nothing but grumbling. Does VV know how this year's opera competition in Venice [the Ricordi prize, for which BM wanted to enter his opera ARIADNA] went? BM is trying to finish GREEK PASSIONS, but is in no hurry because the sun is all summer and not conducive to work. Jakerl sent successful photographs and other memories. They have ordered the OPENING STUDIES records from Prague, but as usual they arrived broken. It is full summer in Nice. The performance of JULIETTA in Wiesbaden is somehow confirmed, so it is possible that there will be a performance next season. The Martins were supposed to go to Basel for the performance of SEXTET, but the train journey takes 18 hours and the plane is prohibitively expensive, so they're staying here.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text2
FixationTypescript, handwritten signature
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationProfessional
Digitized atMZV
Date of digitisation2021

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Location as subject
Basel
Venice
Prague
Torino
Wiesbaden
Person as subject
Jakerle, Jiří
Jakerle, Maren
Sacher, Paul
Corporation as subject
Casa Ricordi
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
Composition as subject
Ariadne, H 370
The Epic of Gilgamesh [auth.], H 351
Juliette (The Key to Dreams), H 253
The Opening of the Springs / The Opening of the Wells, H 354
The Greek Passion, 2nd version, H 372 II
String Sextet, H 224
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