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Price: $550.00 |
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MINT CONDITION |
GEORGES ENESCO - VIOLINIST/COMPOSER |
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Autographed letter signed to a fellow musician, Paris, 6 May, 1954. Tony Aubin is conducting the last concerto opening at the radio Salle Erard on Monday 10, at 8 PM. I have to be there. Would you do me a favor, and start with the chorus at 7:30 PM or 7:45 PM? That way I could sneak out of the room. Thank you so much. Your loving and faithful friend. Georges Enesco Enesco kept a rigorous schedule until a stroke in July of 1954. This letter, written two months before the stroke which would paralyze the violinist and severely limit his activities. The concert he mentions at the Salle Erard was a memorial for the cellist Hans Kindler; Enesco gave a brief eulogy during the broadcast. At the time of this letter, in addition to his conducting and teaching responsibilities, Enesco was completing both his chamber symphony, op. 33 and his giant orchestral work “Vox Maris” op. 31 for large orchestra, soloist and chous which he had worked on since 1929. Enesco had not written any new choral works since 1946 and “Vox Maris” did not receive it’s first performance until nearly a decade after his death in 1964, therefore whatever his friend was rehearsing was not a premier. None-the-less an interesting late letter with musical content. |
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