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Music manuscripts from the collection of Helmut Nanz
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Letter (in the hand of his wife and signed by her in his name) to Franz Kruthoffer, Vienna, 30 December 1781
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Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Letter (in the hand of his wife and signed by her in his name) to Franz Kruthoffer, Vienna, 30 December 1781
In German. One page, 232 x 189mm, bifolium, annotated by the recipient 'Answered Paris, 3 ?February 1782'. Provenance: Heyer collection; Sotheby's, 15 December 1964, lot 418.
Sending a portrait for a Parisian noblewoman. 'I beg you to carry out the following commission for me: to hand the enclosed letter together with the portrait in the tin box to the Bailly du Roullet, but please to open it first and have it stretched on a frame before you deliver it, because when stretched it makes a better showing'. The Bailly is to pass both letter and portrait to Madame de la Ferté. 'I cannot answer your letter this time, because the room is full of people ...'.
Gluck had returned from Paris to Vienna in 1780, disenchanted after the failure of Echo et Narcisse. He lived the remainder of his days there in semi-retirement, while maintaining a foothold in Paris chiefly through correspondence with Franz Kruthoffer (1740-c.1815), secretary to the Austrian diplomat the Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, and Gluck’s agent in the city. According to a footnote in the Collected correspondence, the portrait was likely a copy of the oil painting by Duplessis now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. The intended recipient is presumably the salonnière the Marquise de La Ferté-Imbault (1715-1791). Collected correspondence, ed. Mueller von Asow, p.195.
Letter (in the hand of his wife and signed by her in his name) to Franz Kruthoffer, Vienna, 30 December 1781
In German. One page, 232 x 189mm, bifolium, annotated by the recipient 'Answered Paris, 3 ?February 1782'. Provenance: Heyer collection; Sotheby's, 15 December 1964, lot 418.
Sending a portrait for a Parisian noblewoman. 'I beg you to carry out the following commission for me: to hand the enclosed letter together with the portrait in the tin box to the Bailly du Roullet, but please to open it first and have it stretched on a frame before you deliver it, because when stretched it makes a better showing'. The Bailly is to pass both letter and portrait to Madame de la Ferté. 'I cannot answer your letter this time, because the room is full of people ...'.
Gluck had returned from Paris to Vienna in 1780, disenchanted after the failure of Echo et Narcisse. He lived the remainder of his days there in semi-retirement, while maintaining a foothold in Paris chiefly through correspondence with Franz Kruthoffer (1740-c.1815), secretary to the Austrian diplomat the Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, and Gluck’s agent in the city. According to a footnote in the Collected correspondence, the portrait was likely a copy of the oil painting by Duplessis now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. The intended recipient is presumably the salonnière the Marquise de La Ferté-Imbault (1715-1791). Collected correspondence, ed. Mueller von Asow, p.195.
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