Félicien DAVID (1810-1876). 8 L.A.S., 1869-1875, to his frie - Lot 69

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Félicien DAVID (1810-1876). 8 L.A.S., 1869-1875, to his frie - Lot 69
Félicien DAVID (1810-1876). 8 L.A.S., 1869-1875, to his friend Anne de Lage; 21 pages in-8 or in-12, envelopes (one letter torn, repaired with tape). Beautiful correspondence on music and the war of 1870. [Anne Cognasse de Lage (1844-1901), a woman of letters under the pseudonym of Simone Arnaud, wrote, among other things, opera librettos for Bourgault-Ducoudray, Coquard or Lalo]. July 25, 1869. He regrets " our good evenings of music where I saw you put your finger so well on the things that came from the heart. It is that you are a real touchstone. They were sometimes mixed with a little bitterness these evenings because of my ferocity on the question of the Rhythm. It is necessary to have indulgence for an old stubborn person who suffered so much from the outrages made to his dada ". He waits impatiently for it to start again. "In the meantime, when you take up the piano, remember the rhythmic beats of the master: Rhythm first, expression afterwards"... - [L'Estaque May 13, 1870], lyrical letter about his stay in the sun, by the sea at the Château Fallet in L'Estaque near Marseille; but he must return to "supervise the last rehearsals of Lalla Roukh that will be performed again at the opéra-comique"... - [Paris August 16, 1870]. "I have had a fever since the beginning of this unfortunate campaign. I spend my nights and days in despair. Alas! so much courage and heroism so badly directed! [...] How much blood, how much pain still to arrive at universal pacification. There are still hatreds accumulated for fifty or sixty years between the Latin race and the German race [...] There are moments when I find myself regretting having written the German Rhine, I who sang for so long the brotherhood of peoples and the love of nature"... - [September 7, 1870] : "My heart bleeds like yours. In a few days the Siege will begin and the definitive fate of France will be decided. Whatever happens, France cannot perish. She is the one who freed the people from feudalism". He had to stay in Paris "to look after the precious manuscripts of the library of the Conservatoire" .... - [Pau 21 February 1872]. "I suffered a lot from these killings, from these bitter hatreds, from this humiliation of France". But he keeps his "faith in the indefinite progress"... April 13, 1875. He commits himself " to give in the room of the Conservatory, with an irreproachable personnel, the Eden. This commitment will have no value unless the undersigned wins the jackpot of the 1865 loan "... Leaves collected at the Alhambra by F. David (1874) are attached; a l.a.s. from Anne de Lage to F. David (Manchester, August 28, 1876); the telegram announcing the death of F. David (August 29, 1876); a letter giving details of his last moments; a photograph of F. David (by Pierre Petit, business card size); 5 portraits of Anne de Lage, and a set of documents concerning her.
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