Marie JAËLL (1846-1925). 2 L.A.S., [1883-1884 and s.d., to E - Lot 42

Marie JAËLL (1846-1925). 2 L.A.S., [1883-1884 and s.d., to Edmond Hippeau]; 7 and 3pages in-8. Interesting letters on Liszt and Berlioz. [Edmond Hippeau (1849-1921), music critic, is the author of works on Berlioz and Wagner]. §§Leipzig [August 1883]. About the 6th performance of Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini, in honor of the King of Saxony, in the presence of Liszt and Hans von Bulow; she gives an enthusiastic review, announcing the preparation of a new edition by Breitkopf et Härtel with the German translation by Peter Cornelius, in anticipation of Paris finally discovering this masterpiece... - Weimar August 20, 1884. "For the past week or so I have been reading to Liszt daily from your volume Berlioz intime", whose opinions Liszt approves of and shares... Attached is a musical P.A.S. from her husband Alfred Jaëll (1832-1882), album page with a fragment of his Paraphrase sur le Trovatore and dispatch to pianist Mathilde Sandrini, Trieste October 15, 1856 (1p. oblong in-4).