Camille SAINT-SAËNS

First edition of the vocal and piano score of the opera Déjanire by Camille Saint-Saëns.

A few pencil annotations in the margins of certain staves.

Our copy is presented in a 3/4 shagreen clamshell box, spine with five raised bands framed by gilt garlands and decorated with gilt fleurons, gilt lettering at foot of spine: "Inscribed by composer". Boards, endpapers and pastedowns in marbled paper. Spine of the box slightly faded.

Inscribed, dated and signed by Camille Saint-Saëns to music critic Edouard Beaudu.

Autograph letter signed by Camille Saint-Saëns to the essayist, musicologist and music critic Adolphe Boschot. 43 lines written in black ink on a double leaf edged in black. Transverse fold inherent to the mailing with slight tears to the ends, envelope enclosed in Saint-Saëns's hand to Boschot's address at 71 rue de Grenelle. Note in pencil from a previous bibliographer on the back of the envelope.
Saint-Saëns wrote this wonderful demonstration of reverence for the Salzburg composer in 1901. That same year, his friend Boschot, the recipient of this letter, was playing Mozart's chamber music at his home at 71 rue de Grenelle. The composer apologized for his absence: "It's not my fault...

Unpublished and signed autograph score by Camille Saint-Saëns. Two pages of handwritten music for solo voice and piano, on an oblong bifolium with twenty staves. Autograph inscription on the first page signed by Saint-Saëns, with his signature and date ("Nov. 1870") appearing again on the second page.
Trace of vertical fold, with a tiny tear along the fold, a small marginal tear on 1 cm of the first page, without damage to the manuscript.

An exceptional unpublished autograph manuscript of a Persian melody for voice and piano, composed by Camille Saint-Saëns during the Siege of Paris in November 1870, enriched with a autograph inscription: 'A...

First edition, printed on laid paper.

Contemporary bottle green half shagreen binding, spine faded, with five raised bands framed by black fillets and adorned with gilt lyres, some rubbing to spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt top edge.

Frontispiece portrait of Camille Saint-Saëns.

Inscribed and signed by Camille Saint-Saëns to A. Lasserre, inspector at the Opéra Garnier.

 

Autograph ticket signed by 9 lines of Camille Saint-Saëns about administrative procedures.
A central fold inherent in the enveloping.
"Dear sir / it is not mine, / it is to Mr Durand / that one must ask / this authorization / Acknowledge my best / compliments / Camille Saint-Saëns."