General information
Type of the document Varia
SenderJanelová, Vlasta
Sender (corporation)
Send date12.08.1960
Recipient
Recipient (corporation)
LanguageCzech
AcquiredCopy of the carbon copy of the letter from Státní okresní archiv Svitavy, pracoviště Litomyšl
Owner of the sourceOkresní archiv Svitavy
Owner‘s call numberSOkA Sy, Zpěvácký spolek Kollár Polička, kt. 1/5 02
Call number at IBMJanF 1960-08-12
Content and physical description
Content[Transcript of an article printed in the magazine Nové Svitavsko in the Culture section on 12.8.1960. This is a memoir by André Wurmser entitled "How I got acquainted with Czech life" and signed by Vlasta Janel]. In 1937 he received a phone call from a Czech diplomat [probably Miloš Šafránek] that a Czech composer was looking for a suitable libretto for his cheerful composition. And so Wurmser was visited by Bohuslav Martinů. He told him that he would like a cat or a plant to sing in the piece. AW could only offer him a short text that let the framed portrait do the talking. BM settled for that. BM was a fine and sensitive artist. Witty, but he wasn't the type to assert himself noisily. Thus was born ALEXANDRE BIS. His score flowed easily with gentle irony and had admirable recitatives. The work was completed too late, the war came and BM left for America. He filed the work away somewhere. AW never met BM again.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
NotePublished in Světová literatura roč. 5, č. 2, 1960 (call no. at IBM CA2076)
FixationTypescript
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atSOkA Svitavy, pracoviště Litoměřice
Date of digitisation09/2022

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Location as subject
Prague
Person as subject
Martinů, Bohuslav
Šafránek, Miloš
Wurmser, André
Composition as subject
Alexander Bis, H 255
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