Gustave Charpentier (1860 - 1956)
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11.5cm x 8.5cm with
1 cm black border
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TRANSCRIPTION
Bien cher ami,
En rentrant de réunion dans le
pays Rhénan, fourbu d’ailleurs et
alité pour quelques jours, je trouve vos lettres
et je suis désolé de vous avoir laissé
ainsi sans nouvelles. (C’était bien mal
reconnaître une aussi aimable pensée).
On a déjà donné un acte de l’œuvre
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au Trocadéro avec l’Opéra Comique.
Je ne crois pas qu’il soit permis de
présenter un ouvrage de répertoire autrement
qu’avec la collaboration du Théâtre. M. Heugel
vous renseignera à cet égard. Je vous
remercie d’y avoir songé, à preuve
que vous n’oubliez pas trop
votre admirateur et ami.
G. Charpentier
TRANSLATION
My dearest friend,
Back from a meeting in the Rhénan
country1,
quite tired and
confined to bed for a few days, I found your letters
and I am sorry to have kept you
without any news. (It is a very bad
acknowledgment of such a sweet thought).
We have given an act of the work
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to the Trocadéro2
with the Opéra Comique3.
I do not believe it is permitted
to present a repertoire piece without
the Theatre’s cooperation. Mr. Heugel4
will inform you to that effect. I thank you
for having thought about it, a proof
you do not neglect
your friend and admirer.
G. Charpentier
NOTES:
1)
The Rhenish country, also known
as the Lower Palatinate, included
German lands on both sides of the Middle Rhine River between
its Main
and Neckar tributaries. The Rhenish capital until the 18th
century was
Heidelberg, Germany.
2) Trocadéro - A
reference to the Palais du Trocadéro built ca. 1890. [ A benefit concert was given by the
Société des Concerts du
conservatoire April 22, 1920 on the 30th anniversary of the Trocadéro.]
The Palais du Trocadéro
was replaced in the 1930s by the Palais de Chaillot.
3) Opéra Comique
4) The Heugel
family was a French
family of music publishers begun by Jacques Léopold Heugel (1811-1883) and carried on my his sons and grandsons
Jacques' son was Henri Georges Heugel (1844-1916). Henri's sons was Jacques Paul
Heugel (1890-).
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