Dvořák Antonín Simrock Fritz

Basic information

Inventory number:
S 76/0376
Sender:
Dvořák Antonín
Sender address:
Praha
Recipient:
Simrock Fritz
Date specified by the editor:
14. 04. 1886
Publications:
["ADKD 2, pp. 144-146"]

Letter

Text in original language:

14/4. 86

Ant[onín] Dvořák

R1474

R1474

Prague on the 14th of April 1886

My dear friend

I was a little surprised to heare[!]1 from you, you will have my new Oratorio expressly written for the Leeds Festival. I thought you know already by the newspapers that this new great work will be published at Novello Ewer in London.

The people from Birmingham and Leeds and many others when I was the first time in England asked me to write oratories for their Festivals, and accordingly[!]2  to this, it could only appear at an english music publisher as Novello is.

Of course Mr Littleton bought this new work from me, as hi[!]3  has done with my “Spectres Bride” performed at the last Birmingham Festival.

When I get this new work ready (I am now about this third part) I will begin the promised “Dances Slavonic”.

I hoppe[!]4  till to the beginning of July or end of July, I will abel[!]5  to send them.

Meanwhile I remain faithfully yours

Antonín Dvořák

You see I became quite a[n] Englishman

P.S.

I intent[!]6  to make a journey when I have finished the “Slav[onic] Dances” a[nd] perhaps on this occasion I will see you in Berlin. From May till October I am in Vysoká.

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Annotation:
explains why St Ludmila is being published by Novello
Stationery:
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