Martinu's Letters Home

Five Decades of Correspondence With Family and Friends

Martinu, Bohuslav

Martinu, Bohuslav / Martinu's Letters Home
Format: Book - Hardcover
Released: Thu 17 May 2012
Catalogue Number: 0008437776

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The 121 letters collected in this book document Martinu's life in his own words, beginning as a student in Prague and Paris, following his flight from Nazi-occupied France and charting his triumphs in American exile; the last letter is dated shortly before his death in 1959. They are addressed to his family and friends back home in the village of Policka, on the Czech-Moravian border. Kept at a distance by the Nazi occupation and then by Communism, Martinu was never to return there but, in a letter to the mayor, written as a gesture of solidarity after August 1938, he proud described himself as a 'native son who is far from his home but who constantly returns - if only in his thoughts - with gladness - to that dear land - the most beautiful on earth.'

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  • Editor: Isa Popelka
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
  • Dewey: 780
  • Pages: 214
  • Published Date: Thu 17 May 2012

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