Maurice RAVEL
Lettre autographe datée et signée à propos de l'Enfant et les Sortilèges et les Mélodies grecques
Montfort l'Amaury 9 novembre 1926|13.50 x 10.40 cm|une page
Autograph letter dated and signed by Maurice Ravel, 2 pages on a cardboard note with letterhead bearing his monogram and his address "Le Belvédère Montfort l'Amaury (S.& O.)"
The composer, preparing to leave for Switzerland, puts his affairs in order and addresses various directives to his correspondent. The year 1926 had seen the birth in Paris of l'Enfant et les Sortilèges, his celebrated lyrical fantasy on a text by Colette. Ravel receives "une lettre de Bochie" ("a letter from Bochie") - patriotism never being far away! - and recommends one of the airs from his work: "Je sais qu'on m'y demande des mélodies, pour une Koloratur soprano, l'air
The composer, preparing to leave for Switzerland, puts his affairs in order and addresses various directives to his correspondent. The year 1926 had seen the birth in Paris of l'Enfant et les Sortilèges, his celebrated lyrical fantasy on a text by Colette. Ravel receives "une lettre de Bochie" ("a letter from Bochie") - patriotism never being far away! - and recommends one of the airs from his work: "Je sais qu'on m'y demande des mélodies, pour une Koloratur soprano, l'air
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