French composer and conductor (1864-1955). Autograph letter signed. Nancy. 31.10.1898. 12mo. 1 p.
150 €
(45090/BN31162)
Interesting letter to the editor of the music journal Gazette du Midi, probably Charles Vincens, thanking him for favorable comments on Ropartz's "work of artistic decentralization" in Nancy and announcing to send him programs of the past concert-seasons: "On me communique un numéro de la Gazette du Midi" où vous voulez bien vous occuper, en termes très flatteurs, de l'œuvre de décentralisation artistique que je poursuis à Nancy. Je me permets de vous envoyer la collection des programmes de nos derniers saisons, pensant que peut-être il vous sera intéressant de les parcourir." - While Charles Vincens brought attention to composers and musicians from the Midi and his native Marseille through his writing, Ropartz, a student of Massenet and Dubois, was a very political and prolific director of the conservatories of Nancy and later Strasbourg and, in his own art, a popularizer of his Breton heritage.
- On stationery of the director of the Nancy Conservatory..
French composer and conductor (1864-1955). Autograph letter signed. [Nancy]. 01.06.1900. 8vo. 1 page. With autograph address on verso.
240 €
(82813/BN54133)
To the cellist and conductor Achille Kerrion (1868-1939) in Paris, who had offered to perform some of Ropartz's compositions, announcing an adagio for cello and orchestra to be sent to Paris shortly, and discussing the role of the tuba in some of his works, suggesting his serenade for string orchestra (1892), his "Fantaisie en ré majeur" (1897), and "Les Landes" (1888) to be played by strings or bassoons in substitution of the tuba: "Un editeur de Nancy, Mr. Dupont-Metzner vous enverra un Adagio pour Violoncelle et orchestre.
Vous connaissez la Sérénade pour Cordes (Baudaux). La Fantaisie en ré maj. n'a pas de tuba mais est très difficile. Les Landes ont une partie de tuba mais pas absolument indispensable. Dans un seul passage il faudrait remplacer le tuba absent par le 4e Cor[de] qui ne fait rien ou les Bassons. Ces deux oeuvres sont aussi parties et partitions gravées chez Baudoux: sont ceux pour répondre à votre aimable offre de me mettre à vos programmes [...]". - On headed stationery of the Nancy conservatory. With 2 small tears along the centerfold, as well as tiny flaws to upper margin..