Sales catalogue 530: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/85
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 530: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    such particulars he promised me to speak to the stage manager of the Opera on the audition which was considered as something settled and indisputable in the course of our short conversation. ‘* T also was at Habeneck’s; he told me immediately that my Overture would be tried Friday week at 9 o’clock. He looked through the score to see whether it was quite complete and found that one cello and one bass voice have still to be written; he spoke of several rehearsals of the Overture as ‘ premier audition ete.’ which ought to take place. I gathered from this that he considers the Overture will be proposed for performance, ‘* Under the pretext of wishing to make a small alteration I have however taken the score with me and am sending it to you herewith; but I should like you to remember that a performance at the Conservsetoire may be possible and that you must therefore ask a very quick and prompt decision from your Anonymous triend whether he will take the Overture, so that I need not in any way compromise myself towards Habeneck.’’ M. Joly was the Director of the Théatre de la Renaissance and had accepted to perform Wagner’s ‘‘ Liebesverbot,’’ but he failed and his theatre had to close down before the performance took place. Habeneck was Conductor at the Opera and the Conservatoire, and the Overture mentioned is no doubt the famous Faust Overture, the score of which Wagener had just finished at the time when this letter was written. 2448 AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (INITIALS) IN FRENCH. I page, 12m. Ni: : £7 10s Offering his correspondent a box for “‘ Faust.’ ‘‘ J’ai une loge & 4 places pour Faust & demain (Mardi) J’en puis vous offrir pour 2 personnes et je pense que vous vous faites accompagner par mon enneml Leroy. N’est ce pas? ’’ Ete. WALPOLE (HORACE, EARL OF ORFORD, 1717-1797). Celebrated Author and Letter Writer. Founded the Strawberry Hill Press. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (INITIALS) TO THOMAS GRAY. A pp., 4to. Paris, 19th November, 1765. £15 15s ‘“ You are very kind to inquire so particularly after my gout. I wish T may not be too circumstantial in my answer; but you have tapp’d a dangerous topic; I can talk gout by the hour. It is my great mortification, and has disappointed all the hopes that I had built on temperance and hardness. I have resisted like a (Continued over)