The Correspondence of Bohuslav Martinů with Josef Munclinger and his Comments on the Stage Direction of the Four‑Part Opera Hry o Marii in the Collections of the National Museum

Pages	149-175
DOI	10.1515/muscz-2018-0005
Keywords	Bohuslav Martinů, Josef Munclinger, The Plays of Mary, correspondence, opera, stage direction, comments on stage direction, Czech music, first half of the 20th century
Citation	JIRGLOVÁ, Lucie . The Correspondence of Bohuslav Martinů with Josef Munclinger and his Comments on the Stage Direction of the Four‑Part Opera Hry o Marii in the Collections of the National Museum. Musicalia. Journal of the Czech Museum of Music / Časopis Českého muzea hudby . Prague: National Museum, 2018, 10(1-2), 149-175. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/muscz-2018-0005. ISSN 1803-7828 (Print), 2533-5634 (Online). Also available from: https://www.nm.cz/en/periodicals/mjotcmom/10-1-2/the-correspondence-of-bohuslav-martinu-with-josef-munclinger-and-his-comments-on-the-stage-direction-of-the-fourpart-opera-hry-o-marii-in-the-collections-of-the-national-museum

Musicalia. Journal of the Czech Museum of Music / Časopis Českého muzea hudby | 2018/10/1-2

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 Hry o Marii (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.

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