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Type of the document	Letter
Sender	Talich, Václav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s location	Millstatt am See
Send date	05.08.1933
Recipient	Helfert, Vladimír
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s location	Brno
Language	Czech
Acquired	Scan of the edition of the letter from the book Milan Kuna (ed.), Václav Talich: letters, Museum of Czech Karst: Beroun 2022, pp. 161
Owner of the source	Moravské zemské muzeum, Brno
Call number at IBM	Tal 1933-08-05

Content and physical description

Content	Václav Talich asks Vladimír Helfert for advice in compiling the program of a concert of compositions by Czech composers, which VT will present in Prague with the Czech Philharmonic. He plans to include Martinů's STRING QUARTET WITH ORCHESTRA, Novák's symphonic poem Toman [a forest maiden] and Dvořák's symphony [no. 6] D major. VT asks VH to recommend "a minor symphony by a Czech composer of the 18th or early 19th century", which could also be included in the program.
Total number of leaves	1
Number of pages bearing text	1
Note	The mentioned concert took place on March 14, 1934. Apparently, on Helfert's advice, Talich included the Symphony in E flat major by Václav Pichl
Fixation	Print

Letter

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Digitisation

Quality of digitisation	Not professional black-and-white
Digitized at	Bohuslav Martinu Institute

Location as subject

Prague

Person as subject

Dvořák, Antonín

Martinů, Bohuslav

Novák, Vítězslav

Corporation as subject

Česká filharmonie

Composition as subject

String Quartet with Orchestra, H 207