Martinu's Letters Home: Five Decades of Correspondence with Family and Friends
Bohuslav Martinu
ISBN: 9780907689775
Vydavateľstvo: Boydell & Brewer
Rok vydania: 2013
Väzba: Hardback
Počet strán: 248
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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 proudly described himselfter to the mayor, written as a gesture of solidarity after August 1938, he proudly described himself as a "native son who is far from his home but who constantly r