Louis Ganne (1862-1923)

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Paris, 5, rue Puvis de Chavannes

Cher Monsieur,

En rentrant de voyage je trouve votre lettre si aimable. Laissez-moi vous avouer ma profonde émotion en présence des sentiments si touchants que vous manifestez à l'égard de notre chère France!

Sans avoir l'honneur de vous connaître je puis donc vous envoyer - à travers les mers - l'expression de ma très vive sympathie et c'est de tout coeur que je vous donne l'autographe que vous me faites l'honneur de me demander.

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Permettez-moi également de vous adresser la photographie d'un petit français qui est trés heureux et très fier de savoir que là-bas dans notre cher Canada il y a un coeur qui bat à l'unisson du sien! Croyez, cher Monsieur, à mes sentiments tout dévoués et encore merci pour la douce et consolante joie que vous m'avez donée.

Louis Ganne

30 Novembre 1901

Melodié: "Marche Lorraine"

TRANSLATION

Paris, 5, rue Puvis de Chavannes1

Dear Sir,

I found your kind letter on my return from a trip. Allow me to convey my profound emotion in front of the moving feelings you express for our dear France!
Even if I do not know you I think I can send you - over the seas - my very friendly feelings. Your request of an autograph is an honor for me, and I am giving it from the bottom of my heart.

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Allow me also to enclose the photograph of a little Frenchman who is happy and proud to know that over there, in our dear Canada, there's a heart beating to the same rhythm as his!

Please accept my respects and my repeated thanks for the sweet and soothing joy you have given me.

Louis Ganne

November 30, 1901³

Melody: "Marche Lorraine"4

NOTES:

1) Rue Puvis de Chavannes is a short steet in northwest Paris, near the present Pereire Métro station.

2) "On Monday the eighteenth [of February 1907], the International Sporting Club was the scene of a festival in honor of Massenet given by Louis Ganne with the [Monte Carlo] Casino Orchestra." Ganne studied with Massenet, Franck and DuBois. (Source: Demar Irvine, Massenet, p 269).

3) November 30, 1901 was Saturday. Ganne was about 39 years old.

4) Marche Lorraine is today still very popular and is available in a new arrangement (2002) by Mark Williams (Alfred Publishing).

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Louis Gaston [or Gustave] Ganne (1862 – 1923) was active a both a composer and conductor. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Theodore Dubois, Caesar Franck, and Jules Massenet. He wrote light operas, ballets, 150 piano pieces, and many marches. One of his best, Marche Lorraine, is still very popular today with bands. A portion of this march in Ganne’s own writing can be seen in the document above. Other popular works include: La Czarina; Mazurka Russe; and Le Pere (de) la Victoire which has long been associated with the circus. He had particular success with his ballets at the Folies Bergère and the Casino de Paris. Two of his operettas became quite popular: In 1899, he produced the circus musical Les saltimbanques, and in 1906, The Monte Carlo Opera produced Hans le jouer de flûte, a variation on the children’s Pied Piper story. In 1907, Ganne gave a festival in honor of his former teacher Massenet.

REV: 2/18/2004

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