MUSIC - Henry LITOLFF (1818-1891, Pianist virtuoso and compo - Lot 355

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MUSIC - Henry LITOLFF (1818-1891, Pianist virtuoso and compo - Lot 355
MUSIC - Henry LITOLFF (1818-1891, Pianist virtuoso and composer) / Autograph letter signed, 3 p in-8, January 12, 1890, to his librettist Jules ADENIS: "I have been thinking, Yes, the 3rd act and the 2nd panel of the 2nd act, it is the continuation of the storm of the 2nd act, therefore, necessarily, it is the 2nd panel - You came to see me on the 7th of this month, on the 8th, I had completely finished the 2nd panel of the 2nd act, and since then, I spend my time watching the hours go by - If I were a bear, I could distract myself by licking my paws, it seems that it makes them pass the time very pleasantly, but I don't like that, each one has his own tastes. I had asked you, dear friend, to send me as soon as possible the first picture of the second act, because if I had it, I could be busy correcting the music of the copyist. I am sending you the libretto of the second scene with a request that you tell Leduc [the music publisher Alphonse Leduc] to send them here as soon as possible - I have played and replayed our first two acts. The libretto and music are good, very good. I dare to say, that up to now, it is a work, will it be the same for the 3rd act? I don't hide from you all the anxiety I have on this subject, up to now we are sailing in the vague, in the ideal, in a Shakespearian ether, without taking care, neither of the public, nor of the Director, we are Us. Let us try to continue in the same way" [Henry Litolff was then working on the music for "King Lear", an opera in three acts on a libretto by Jules and Eugène Adenis, based on Shakespeare's work].
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