General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderStrecker, Willi
Sender (corporation)Schott Music GmbH & Co.
Sender‘s locationMainz
Send date05.07.1955
RecipientDushkin, Samuel
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationNew York, NY
LanguageGerman
AcquiredCopy from Schott Archives, Mainz, 09/2022
Owner of the sourceSchott Music GmbH & Co.
Call number at IBMSM 1955-07-05
Content and physical description
ContentWilli Strecker's last letter to Samuel Dashkin was lost in the Caribbean Sea. In it, WS asked SD to send back the proofs of Martinu's SUITE CONCERTANTE as soon as possible, as he already wanted to reprint the edition. Martinů is getting impatient, as is a mutual friend [Milos] Safranek, who wants to write a biography of Martinů and urgently demands this suite. Šafránek asks whether this suite is identical to the VIOLIN CONCERT, which was lost during the war. WS knows nothing about the violin concert, but suggests that with the many revisions of this work, the suite may once have been planned as a violin concerto.

WS hopes that SD is now in better health and will be able to work on recordings for violin and piano. WS met Erich Itor Kaan and his wife in Baden-Baden for a performance of a chamber work in Schoenberg style, which WS admires greatly.

The contract with AMP [Associated Music Publishers] was finally signed unchanged as they wanted. WS's trip to America will not take place until early next year.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text2
FixationTypewriting, handwritten signature
Letter

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Digitisation
Quality of digitisationProfessional
Digitized atSchott Music
Location as subject
Baden-Baden
Person as subject
Káan, Jindřich
Martinů, Bohuslav
Šafránek, Miloš
Schönberg, Arnold
Corporation as subject
Associated Music Publishers
Composition as subject
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1, H 226
Suite Concertante for Violin and Orchestra [auth.], H 276 II
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