MEYERBEER, GIACOMO Autograph letter signed (“Giacomo Meyerbeer”), to Émile Deschamps, librettist of Les Huguenots, 3 February 1835 informing him that he has been at the spa in Baden-Baden, recuperating from illness and reminding Deschamps that he had promised to send him his plans for Ange (ie Deschamps’s libretto for their planned opera Ange serviteur), some Romances and to send the abbreviated recitatives [for Les Huguenots] as soon as possible; he tells Deschamps that he will be in Paris at the end of April and would really appreciate if he had drawn up definite plans for their two collaborations, and especially if he could spare him a couple of hours to deal with the shortening of the recitatives,which he needs to complete his opera; Meyerbeer adds that he has not heard any music for some two months, and asks him for his opinion of Bellini’s I puritani and Halévy’s La Juive, two operas that have met with such colossal success, "...Vous avez sans doute aux Puritani de Bellini & à la Juive d'Halévy, deux ouvrages dont on dit le succès colossal. Vous allez avoir deux opéra nouveaux de Donizetti & d’Auber, & avec tout cela les concerts du Conservatoire etc etc. Enfin vous êtes des heureux mortels, vous autres parisiens. J’aime avoir bien à connaître l’opinion d’un juge aussi éclairé et de bon goût sur les deux ouvrages de Bellini et de Halévy que l’on dit tous les deux de la plus grande beauté..." 2 pages, 4to (c.25 x 20cm), Baden-Baden, 3 February 1835, some browning Les Huguenots was premiered by the Paris Opéra on 29 February 1836. It was a tremendous success and made Meyerbeer famous throughout Europe and the Americas. He had turned to Émile Deschamps in 1834, to make substantial adjustments to Scribe’s libretto for the opera, rewriting Marcel’s part throughout, the Blessing of the Daggers and Valentin’s romance in Act 4,and Raoul’s air and the trio in Act 5. In this letter Meyerbeer discusses the shortening of Scribe’s recitatives. Deschamps was reportedly rather dilatory in supplying Meyerbeer with texts, although there is a prose draft of the first four scenes of Ange serviteur among the Meyerbeer papers now in Berlin (Signatur: N.Mus.Nachl. 97, V/94)Condition reportsplitting along fold, some browning to the second page, slight creasing with small tears to margins The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
MEYERBEER, GIACOMO Autograph letter signed (“Giacomo Meyerbeer”), to Émile Deschamps, librettist of Les Huguenots, 3 February 1835 informing him that he has been at the spa in Baden-Baden, recuperating from illness and reminding Deschamps that he had promised to send him his plans for Ange (ie Deschamps’s libretto for their planned opera Ange serviteur), some Romances and to send the abbreviated recitatives [for Les Huguenots] as soon as possible; he tells Deschamps that he will be in Paris at the end of April and would really appreciate if he had drawn up definite plans for their two collaborations, and especially if he could spare him a couple of hours to deal with the shortening of the recitatives,which he needs to complete his opera; Meyerbeer adds that he has not heard any music for some two months, and asks him for his opinion of Bellini’s I puritani and Halévy’s La Juive, two operas that have met with such colossal success, "...Vous avez sans doute aux Puritani de Bellini & à la Juive d'Halévy, deux ouvrages dont on dit le succès colossal. Vous allez avoir deux opéra nouveaux de Donizetti & d’Auber, & avec tout cela les concerts du Conservatoire etc etc. Enfin vous êtes des heureux mortels, vous autres parisiens. J’aime avoir bien à connaître l’opinion d’un juge aussi éclairé et de bon goût sur les deux ouvrages de Bellini et de Halévy que l’on dit tous les deux de la plus grande beauté..." 2 pages, 4to (c.25 x 20cm), Baden-Baden, 3 February 1835, some browning Les Huguenots was premiered by the Paris Opéra on 29 February 1836. It was a tremendous success and made Meyerbeer famous throughout Europe and the Americas. He had turned to Émile Deschamps in 1834, to make substantial adjustments to Scribe’s libretto for the opera, rewriting Marcel’s part throughout, the Blessing of the Daggers and Valentin’s romance in Act 4,and Raoul’s air and the trio in Act 5. In this letter Meyerbeer discusses the shortening of Scribe’s recitatives. Deschamps was reportedly rather dilatory in supplying Meyerbeer with texts, although there is a prose draft of the first four scenes of Ange serviteur among the Meyerbeer papers now in Berlin (Signatur: N.Mus.Nachl. 97, V/94)Condition reportsplitting along fold, some browning to the second page, slight creasing with small tears to margins The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
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