General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationKeene Valley, New York
Note on Sender‘s location[Keene Valley, New York]
Send date03.08.1947
RecipientMartinů, Charlotte
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationVieux-Moulin
Note on Recipient‘s location[Vieux-Moulin]
LanguageFrench
Former call number at IBM45/88
Call number at IBMMarC 1947-08-03
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů writes to Charlotte Martinů that he will leave for Tanglewood tomorrow. He has received a letter from Karel [Novak] who writes about [Karel Boleslav] Jirák, that the KBJ denounced him to the Nazi government, BM does not understand this at all. KN tries to find him an apartment, BM tells him that they will stay at Zbiroh first. He is tired after the party at [Grigoriy] Piatigorsky's. Martinu explains to ChM that staying in Czechoslovakia might be tiring for him. [Arthur] Honegger is very ill, he has had a heart attack, but BM hopes they will meet. [Samuel] Barber has joined Tanglewood in his place. He is planning a visit with a lawyer in Pittsfield. KN also wrote to him that BM will be able to appoint an assistant at the Conservatory, BM doesn't understand much, will write to him.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text2
Fixationhandwriting
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationProfessional

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Location as subject
Czechoslovakia
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Tanglewood, Massachusetts
Person as subject
Barber, Samuel
Honegger, Arthur
Jirák, Karel Boleslav
Novák, Karel
Piatigorskij, Grigorij
Quennehen, Augustine Ernestine Amicie
Rybka, Frank
Corporation as subject
Pražská konzervatoř
Tanglewood Music Center
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