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Type of the document	Varia
Sender	Kaprálová, Vítězslava
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Sender‘s location	Paris
Send date	08.12.1939
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Language	Czech
Acquired	Image from sale at Erasmushaus basel, catalog 885
Former call number at IBM	VAR 027
Call number at IBM	KapV 1939-12-08

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Content	A typewritten invitation to Bohuslav Martinů’s 50th birthday celebration party. Handwritten fanfare likely composed by Vítězslava Kaprálová written on the margin of the page. The celebration will feature the “immaculate conception” [i.e., a preview of excerpts] of Martinů’s FIELD MASS. [In 1939, Martinů celebrated his 49th birthday, but was entering his 50th year of life; the celebration was organized by Vítězslava Kaprálová, Jiří Mucha, and Fedor Hodža, whose initials appear on the invitation.]
Total number of leaves	1
Number of pages bearing text	1
Fixation	Typescript, handwriting

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Quality of digitisation	Not professional black-and-white
Digitized at	IBM

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Hodža, Fedor

Martinů, Bohuslav

Mucha, Jiří

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Field Mass, H 279

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