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Editore: Paris ,
Da: Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat, Zurich, Svizzera
(Paris ), n.d. Calling card with printed name "J. Massenet" and address "38, rue du Général Foy". To an unnamed recipient: "Vos très charmants félicitations me causent un vrai plaisir - vous pensez à moi et je vous en remercie tant!!" - Glue marks on verso. AUTOGRAPHS ; MUSIC ;
Editore: 8 February no year. No place
Da: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Regno Unito
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. On aged paper, with punch hole through both leaves at head, small closed cut along bottom edge of first leaf, and with paper and part of another letter (from an album) glued onto the reverse of the second leaf. Folded once. The signature 'M. Massenet' is explained in Massenet's obituary in the Musical Times, 1 September 1912, which speaks of 'the composer's known antipathy to the name Jules [ ] He preferred to be called "M. Massenet" simply'. The recipient of this enthusiastic letter is not named. The letter appears to have been written to a man who has sent a portrait of his wife (the Swedish soprano Sigrid Arnoldson-Fischhof) to Massenet. It begins: 'Cher ami, | Le portrait est admirable et si ressemblant! | L'attention est exquise!' He continues with a reference to 'votre "merveille" de femme', and then writes: 'Nous sommes en voyage, Mlle. Massenet & moi, et je vais écrire à notre grand ami Hengel.' He ends with a message for 'Mme Arnoldson'.
Da: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo Copia autografata
Small octavo, one page (verso blank, with a conjugate blank); no year or address given, but 'En hate . le 19 Nov .'). Folded once across the centre; in excellent condition, with the signature large, bold and underlined. One of the curiosities of Massenet is that he habitually signed with M., rather than his given name or initial. Massenet has come back into fashion and is more performed now than in the late twentieth century. Provenance: Collection of The Hon Barry Jones AC.