Lot n° 82
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800 - 1000
EUR
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: 1 200EUR
OFFENBACH, Jacques (1819-1880), compositeur - Lot 82
OFFENBACH, Jacques (1819-1880), compositeur
- L.A.S. to the journalist Auguste Villemot (1811-1870). 1 p. in-8, letterhead of the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens. "These few lines in your honour next Sunday will fill me with joy and I do not say myself less your cruelest enemy". - Important set of letters (about 170) about Offenbach, from the librettist Henri Chivot (1830-1897), who collaborated on 4 Offenbach's works: Alfred Duru (61 L.A.S., he was one of his main collaborators), Hervé (4), M. L. Mayer (agent in charge of the exploitation of Offenbach's works in Paris and London. 37 L.A.S. to Henri Chivot and 1 to Offenbach + 10 drafts of letters from Chivot to Mayer. Interesting correspondence on the commercial exploitation of Madame Favart and the Fille du Tambour-major, two of Offenbach's last works). Marius, director of the Royal Avenue Theatre in London (6 letters on the mounting and triumph of Madame Favart in London. "I edit Favart as he has never been edited and as he will never be edited. We spent 70,000 francs..." + 2 telegrams "Madame Favart a triumph will write to you tomorrow Prince of Wales present at the opening"). More than 70 miscellaneous letters, some related to Offenbach: Yriarte, Suraudin, Varin, Ch. de La Rounat, Clairville, Alfred Delacour, Léon Vasseur, Berthelier, Clairville, Pellet, Edmund Gerson, J. H. French, Charles Lecocq (8), Dormeuil (25, Palais Royal, + drafts of Chivot), Wood, Defossez Opera Comique Compagny (New York 1881), Schott brothers, Dr Martin, and some miscellaneous documents.
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