Debussy, Claude AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (“CLAUDE DEBUSSY”), TO THE CONDUCTOR AND COMPOSER ANDRÉ CAPLET, ABOUT EDGAR ALLAN POE AND THE UNFINISHED OPERA "LE DIABLE DANS LE BEFFROI" confessing that his preoccupation with Poe amounts to an almost painful obsession, causing him to forgo social intercourse, thanking Caplet for his corrections, his piano arrangements of his music, teasing him about his devotion to La Mer ("...Madame la Mer et de ses filles, Mesdemoiselles les Vagues…"), which keeps him from Parisian Society and asking if he would not prefer to arrange Images ("... A ce propos je ne puis vous cacher que je me suis laissé aller à ne plus de tout m’occuper des "Images", au profit du Monsieur E.A.Poë...cet homme, quoique posthume, exerce sur moi un tyrannie presque angoissante. J’en oublie des affections essentielles, et m’enferme comme une brute dans la Maison Usher, a moins que je me tienne compagnie au diable dans la Beffroi…") 2 pages, 12mo ( c. 15.5 x 11cm), written in dark blue ink, on two leaves, versos blank, Debussy’s printed blue stationery ("Extra superfine" by De La Rue & Co.), including autograph envelope, 80 Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 21 September 1909
Debussy, Claude AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (“CLAUDE DEBUSSY”), TO THE CONDUCTOR AND COMPOSER ANDRÉ CAPLET, ABOUT EDGAR ALLAN POE AND THE UNFINISHED OPERA "LE DIABLE DANS LE BEFFROI" confessing that his preoccupation with Poe amounts to an almost painful obsession, causing him to forgo social intercourse, thanking Caplet for his corrections, his piano arrangements of his music, teasing him about his devotion to La Mer ("...Madame la Mer et de ses filles, Mesdemoiselles les Vagues…"), which keeps him from Parisian Society and asking if he would not prefer to arrange Images ("... A ce propos je ne puis vous cacher que je me suis laissé aller à ne plus de tout m’occuper des "Images", au profit du Monsieur E.A.Poë...cet homme, quoique posthume, exerce sur moi un tyrannie presque angoissante. J’en oublie des affections essentielles, et m’enferme comme une brute dans la Maison Usher, a moins que je me tienne compagnie au diable dans la Beffroi…") 2 pages, 12mo ( c. 15.5 x 11cm), written in dark blue ink, on two leaves, versos blank, Debussy’s printed blue stationery ("Extra superfine" by De La Rue & Co.), including autograph envelope, 80 Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 21 September 1909
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