BOIELDIEU, François-Adrien (1775-1834). Set... - Lot 229 - Gros & Delettrez

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BOIELDIEU, François-Adrien (1775-1834). Set... - Lot 229 - Gros & Delettrez
BOIELDIEU, François-Adrien (1775-1834). Set of 5 documents: -P.S. "Pension sur l'Etat - Certificat de vie". Paris, October 11, 1828. 1 p. in-folio. Partially printed. Trace of tab. Pension granted by King Charles X to Boieldieu, for an amount of 1200 francs annually. -L.A.S. addressed to the playwright and librettist Eugène Scribe. S.l.n.d. 1 p. 1/3 in-8. "I am sending you the score of our White Lady because I want to appear in your library. You would have had this score much earlier if I had not wanted to wait for the mistakes to be corrected ". Boieldieu asks for Le Muet " the opera in three acts ", to relieve his boredom and adds " I would still like some success with you [...]. It takes you four days to write Le Muet. If you give it to me now it will be ready for August. It would be performed in September. Fiorella, the Two Seducers, the Mute, that's enough to make a good winter. Come on dear Scribe, get to work and don't let me get cold! He adds " I know that Bouilly is working again on his Two Nights [...] and frankly, between us, I do not wish to get back to it [...] it would be another Scottish work ". La Dame blanche, a comic opera in three acts by Boieldieu, on a libretto by Eugène Scribe, was premiered on December 10, 1825 at the Opéra-Comique and was a great success. -L.A.S. S.l., February 20, 1824. 1 p. in-folio. Minor angular paper cut without gravity. About his nomination to the reading committee of the Opéra-Comique. Boieldieu says he is aware of the inconveniences that it can have for an author to have to pronounce on the fate of the works of his colleagues and fears accusations of partiality "the task is thorny", he accepts however. -2 L.A.S. S.l.n.d. 5 pp. in-4 or in-8. Ink slightly erased to a mail. Interesting letters about choristers, choirs, 60 musicians in a too small hall, etc. "Ungrateful, perfidious, insensitive individuals, who leave the artist in the cottage [...]".
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