The collections of the Theatre Department at the National Museum in Prague contain a set of sources that allow us to see how Bohuslav Martinů participated in preparing productions of his stage works. ...This is a collection of the composer’s correspondence and comments on stage direction written on the occasion of the first Prague performance of the four-part opera
(The Plays of Mary), H 236 in 1936. The text publishes full transcripts of all of these sources with critical commentary. This involves two letters from Bohuslav Martinů addressed to Josef Munclinger, one letter from the management of the National Theatre in Prague to Bohuslav Martinů, and two lists of the composer’s comments on stage direction.
In the course of the 1920s and 30s Pavel Haas (1899–1944) earned a reputation for himself in broader cultural consciousness as an original composer and Janáček’s “most talented student”. In ...the specific context of Czech music he likewise has the reputation of an innovator but is considered to have been strongly rooted in tradition as well.
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