Description
Autograph letter signed, one page, 5,25 x 7,5 inch, Saturday 7 a.m. [circa 1861-1862], in French, to the music publisher Antoine de Choudens* - concerning a quartet from Faust and Charles Gounod's opera `The Queen of Sheba`**, written and signed in black ink "Georges Bizet", attractively mounted (removable) for fine display with a photograph, shows Georges Bizet in a chest-up portrait (altogether 11,75 x 8,25 inch), with intersecting letter folds, and scattered mild signs of wear - in fine condition.
"Samedi 7 h.
Voilà !
Vous savez que vous ne m'avez pas envoyé le quatuor du morceau de Faust. Je ne peux le corriger que sur mon brouillon. Il me faudrait recontinuer les doubles notes, etc.
Merci de la feuille de La Reine de Saba [...]
Georges Bizet"
Translated:
"Saturday 7 a.m.
Here!
You know you didn't send me the quartet from Faust. I can only fix it on my draft. I would have to continue the double notes, etc.
Thank you for the sheet of The Queen of Sheba [...]
Georges Bizet"
* Georges Bizet was a close friend of Antoine de Choudens, for whom he also executed works of copy and arrangements, in particular the reduction for piano and voice of Charles Gounod's opera `The Queen of Sheba`.
** `La reine de Saba` (The Queen of Sheba) is a grand opera in four or five acts by Charles Gounod to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré inspired by Gérard de Nerval's La Reine de Saba, in Le voyage en Orient. It was premiered at the Salle Le Peletier by the Paris Opera on February 28, 1862.
Further Information on the person
Profession:
(1838-1875, né Alexandre César Léopold Bizet) French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.
Year of Birth: 1838
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