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GOUNOD, Charles (1818-1893). Autograph letter signed to a friend, [n.p.], 27 October [1890?], regretting that he could not take part in the meetings of a committee for the erection of a statue in memory of
Bizet and expressing his appreciation of Bizet and his association with the musicians involved in the project, ...ma profonde sympathie pour l'homme et l'artiste, 1½ pages, 8vo; GOUNOD. Autograph letter signed to a friend, Paris, 21 September [?1876], a jocular letter arranging to meet his correspondent on Thursday at the usual time in the Boulevard Haussmann, Voilà mon NEZ: que je vous demande la permission de vous offrir... , one page, 12mo.
The illustres confrères to whom Gounod refers in the first letter in connection with Bizet's statue are Ambroise Thomas and Ernest Reyer, the French composer and critic. Bizet had died in 1875, and a few years earlier in 1872 had handled negotiations for a revival of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette during the latter's absence in England. Gounod and Thomas were pall-bearers at Bizet's funeral. It is possible that the letter refers to the monument in the Opéra-Comique which replaced the bust of Bizet by Paul Dubois which had been destroyed in the fire of 1887. Alternatively, an earlier reading of the date of the letter, which is indistinct, would suggest that the monument to which Gounod refers is the original in the Père Lachaise cemetery by Charles Garnier.
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Bizet and expressing his appreciation of Bizet and his association with the musicians involved in the project, ...ma profonde sympathie pour l'homme et l'artiste, 1½ pages, 8vo; GOUNOD. Autograph letter signed to a friend, Paris, 21 September [?1876], a jocular letter arranging to meet his correspondent on Thursday at the usual time in the Boulevard Haussmann, Voilà mon NEZ: que je vous demande la permission de vous offrir... , one page, 12mo.
The illustres confrères to whom Gounod refers in the first letter in connection with Bizet's statue are Ambroise Thomas and Ernest Reyer, the French composer and critic. Bizet had died in 1875, and a few years earlier in 1872 had handled negotiations for a revival of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette during the latter's absence in England. Gounod and Thomas were pall-bearers at Bizet's funeral. It is possible that the letter refers to the monument in the Opéra-Comique which replaced the bust of Bizet by Paul Dubois which had been destroyed in the fire of 1887. Alternatively, an earlier reading of the date of the letter, which is indistinct, would suggest that the monument to which Gounod refers is the original in the Père Lachaise cemetery by Charles Garnier.
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