[CHÂTEAU DE LA MUETTE] Gaspare SPONTINI (1774-1851)... - Lot 20 - Ader

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[CHÂTEAU DE LA MUETTE] Gaspare SPONTINI (1774-1851)... - Lot 20 - Ader
[CHÂTEAU DE LA MUETTE] Gaspare SPONTINI (1774-1851) composer. L.A., La Muette Thursday evening [1849], to James Pradier; 1 page small in-4, address. About his bust commissioned from the sculptor by his native town of Jesi. "As long as there is time and possibility [...] Enlarge my bust, I beg you, since my merit is not great. It is essential that you do so, since the Comune and the magistracy of Jesi demand it absolutely, and all the copies I want to give in all countries, even those in plaster, must be enlarged more than nature, like the one in marble and bronze. Do not make me in grace a collar of abit patched, ridicul, of colin, nor deform my collar of shirt too much! I am serious, I wear imposing let me as I am "... [Spontini often stayed at the castle of La Muette, with his brother-in-law Jean-Baptiste Érard and his descendants; he had married Céleste Érard in 1811].
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