Martinu's Letters Home
Martinu's Letters Home: Five Decades of Correspondence with Family and Friends Bohuslav Martinu, Isa Popelka (Editor)
Publisher: Toccata Press
ISBN: 0907689779
Edition: Hardcover; 2009-10
Summary:
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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