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GOUNOD Charles.
10 autograph MANUSCRIPTS (5 signed) for Memoirs of an artist, [ca. 1875?]; 67 pages small in-4. Texts on music which will be integrated into his autobiography. [It was in 1873 that Gounod started to work on his memoirs, which he also conceived as a book on art. In August 1875, Georgina Weldon published in London, in French, a Autobiographie de Ch. Gounod, followed by articles on art, which she presented as the fruit of her collaboration with Gounod. In response to this unauthorized pamphlet, Gounod went back to writing his memoirs, which were published posthumously under the title Memoirs of an Artist in 1896. A new and excellent expanded edition of them has recently been given by Gérard Condé (Actes Sud/Palazzetto Bru Zane, 2018)]. On Routine in Art. These 6 autograph manuscripts (5 of which are signed "Ch. Gounod") were partly published in 1873-1874 in L'Art universel de Bruxelles and The Cosmopolitan, and collected in the Autobiography. The whole is written on small bluish paper sheets in-4, and was used for printing. - La Propriété artistique. " (Digression retrospective sur la carrière d'artiste au point de vue lucratif " (7 and 6 p.), 2 articles numbered 16 and 17. - La Propriété artistique. "(Urgency of an International Artistic Congress)" (6 p.). - Authors (6 p.). - Performers (5 p.). - Teaching (6 p.). La Critique musicale anglaise, ms autogr. (7 p., purple ink). Collected in the Autobiography. Plus 1 page in-8 on pink paper, of an outline for an article La Critique de la Critique; and 3 autogr. pages relating to an article on criticism. Les Pères de l'Église de la Musique (Études esthétiques), autogr. ms. (5 p. small in-4). Collected in the Autobiography. Of the clappers. Incomplete draft of this unpublished text (title and 4 p.). Plus a pencil draft concerning copyright (1 p. and a half, on the back of the printed text of his letter to Her Majesty's Commissioners concerning his Choral Concerts, April 20, 1872). Of the Artist in Modern Society. Autogr. ms of this text collected in Memoirs of an Artist (15 p. in-4). Attached are: - the booklet Autobiographie de Ch. Gounod published by Georgina Weldon, copy by G. Weldon who wrote on the title page: " Georgina Weldon alone and only complete proof awaiting M. Gounod's decision "; Gounod's autograph corrections in pencil -12, tear to the cover); - the articles printed in The Cosmopolitan in 1874 and reprinted in the Autobiographie; - the manuscript by G. Weldon's manuscript of his English translation of the article on the International Artistic Congress; - a handwritten copy of the chapter on "Italy" in the Mémoires d'un artiste, annotated for the edition (40 p. small in-4); - 2 offprints of the articles on Saint-Saëns and on the French Academy in Rome published in La Nouvelle Revue (1882-1883), and integrated into the Mémoires d'un artiste.
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