LA CHABEAUSSIÈRE Étienne-Xavier Poisson de (1752-1820). - Lot 153

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LA CHABEAUSSIÈRE Étienne-Xavier Poisson de (1752-1820). - Lot 153
LA CHABEAUSSIÈRE Étienne-Xavier Poisson de (1752-1820). L.A.S. " D.L.C. ", 14 May 1811, to Stanislas CHAMPEIN; 2 1/2 pages in-4, address. Charming literary and musical letter from the librettist to the composer. [Stanislas CHAMPEIN (1753-1830) is the author of several comic operas, including Le Soldat français (1779) and La Mélomanie (1781)]. "Wouldn't my fields, my dear Champein, become yours? Wouldn't they become more beautiful if you gave me the hope of seeing them from time to time, even often, to discuss words and music with me. That would be the real way to make the muses more interesting to me. I have a bed to give you whenever you want, a bad piano, a good bottle of wine and better than all that a good and frank friendship"... He speaks about their 10th scene, " if it is necessary to always play and never to sing well quietly there to sing only: your singers will beat me instead of embracing me they will shine less, they will not flatter themselves to have made the success of the work. They will court the Farchi, Biangini, Sarti, they will roll over for all these scholars in i who are however neither Gretri nor Monsigni, and will leave us there for not having rolled over them too. In addition I will recopy the Bohemians as I conceive them at present and I will substitute this plan of scene for that which is there and then we will see. I will kiss your Greek out of gratitude; but I do not hide from you that the next one pleases me more than the mistress and that this role there will become the main one. I am still in a position to marry them both. As for the Ardennes, it is still an indecipherable mess but it will become clearer. All that worries me is that I have already started this work three times and that by a rather bizarre fate the important scene of the work has always been pushed aside by other situations. I would surprise you if I told you that my Azémia [set to music by Dalayrac] was originally an accessory to the subject of the Ardennes "... Attached: a L.A.S. from LAMOTHE-LANGON, Paris September 19, 1830, to Maurice Schlesinger, music publisher (2 p. small in-8, adr.), to have "set to music a certain number of songs on political and national subjects" that he has recently composed; and a L.A.S. from SULLY-PRUDHOMME to a colleague, April 4, 1896, cancelling an appointment.
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