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Price: $250.00 |
FROMENTAL HALÉVY - COMPOSER |
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FINE CONDITION |
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Phone: 212-860-5541 * Fax: 917-677-8247
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Autographed one page letter, no place, no date.
The composer writes to a good friend:
...Madamoiselle Lavvy will not be singing this evening. When will it all be finished? I am discouraged by it. I will have see Baker tomorrow…..I have to be clear about things. Write me a word about what you are doing, it all must be done……
Fromental despite rampant anti-Semitism in France was one of the most powerful musicians of his day. Protégé of Luigi Cherubini, winner of the Prix de Rome, musical advisor to the Dauphin of France, Chef du Chant at the Paris Opera, Member of the Institute and Secretary of the Academie of Beaux-Artes. He also at various times was professor of harmony and accompaniment, counterpoint and fugue and later composition. His pupils included Charles Gounod, Camille Saint-Saëns and his son-in-law Georges Bizet. He wrote some 32 operas and opera-comiques, none which equaled Meyerbeer, the darling of the time, save “La Juive.”
A fine letter for display which mentions he is the composer of “La Juive” in another hand.
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