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Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Autograph letters signed (2), dated : [Paris], to [Humbert Ferrand] 1834 May 17 and 1858 Nov. 19.

Title: Autograph letters signed (2), dated : [Paris], to [Humbert Ferrand] 1834 May 17 and 1858 Nov. 19.

Complaining [in 1834] that he must scribble for newspapers that pay him as little as they can, mentioning a life of Gluck, la Chasse de Lutzow [i.e. Weber's Leyer und Schwert]--Berlioz writes out 3/4 of a page of the music sung by "those animals of chorus singers"--, commenting on the prosody of Ferrand's lines, saying that Harriet [Berlioz's wife] is frequently ill [their son, Louis, was born on 14 August], that he has chosen Benvenuto Cellini as the subject for a new two-act comic opera, that he has finished the first three parts of his new symphony [Harold en Italie], mentioning Bertin, Shakespeare's Hamlet, [Liszt's transcription of the] Symphonie [fantastique]; discussing [in 1858] the serialization of his Mémoires in le Monde illustré--they were edited between 1848 and 1850 and he is only publishing fragments of them now--, discussing his efforts to have Les Troyens produced at the Opéra, complaining that the emperor is not fond enough of music to intercede on Berlioz's behalf so that, like Mozart, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Weber, and Beethoven before him, all of whom wished to write for the Opéra, Berlioz is ostracized from it, saying that he is sending Ferrand the full score of L'enfance du Christ, mentioning Rouget de Lisle and the Marseillaise, etc.

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Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Autograph letters signed (15), dated : Paris [and n.p.], [1854]-1864 [and n.d.], to [Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein], 1854 Dec. 16, [1854]-1864 [and n.d.].

Title: Autograph letters signed (15), dated : Paris [and n.p.], [1854]-1864 [and n.d.], to [Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein], 1854 Dec. 16, [1854]-1864 [and n.d.].

Largely of a personal and social nature, mentioning his Troyens (with a muiscal example), L'enfance du Christ, [Benvenuto] Cellini, Les grotesques de la musique, David's Hurculanum, Gounod's Faust, "l'opéra innomé de Meyerbeer" [i.e. Dinorah], [Massé's] La reine Topaze (in which the prima donna sings Paganini's variations on the Carnival of Venice), Bellini's Les Capuletti [i.e. I Capuleti e i Montecchi] with Vaccai's Act III, expressing his dislike of Haydn's Creation, mentioning Liszt, Mme Patersi, Mme Milde, Mme Stoltz, Scudo, Littolf [i.e. Litolff], Paul Delaroche, Delacroix, Scheffer, Ponsard, Shakespeare (whom Berlioz quotes in several letters), Richault, Oulibischef, Weber's Oberon, Bertin, Molière, Mlle Artôt, Viardot, Borghi-Mammo [i.e. Adelaide Borghi], Pasdeloup, Beethoven, Dessauer, Michelet, Balzac, the duchesse d'Abrantès [i.e. Laure Junot], [Delphine] de Girardin, Adolphe Nourrit, Rachel, [Joseph] Strau, ̀ Bénazet, Vestvali [i.e. Felicja Vestfali], Hugo, Edouard Plouvier, Bulow, Mme Charton-Demeur, Jules Lefort, Dingelstedt, Flottow [sic], Verdi, and Conti (who have been nominated for the Institut de France)--"C'est flatteur pour Verdi n'est-ce pas? ... Verdi est un galant homme, très fier, très inflexible, et qui sait on ne peut mieux remettre à leur place les petits chiens et les gros ânes qui s'émancipent trop"--, Rossini, Palestrina, Gewaert [sic], Monjauze, [Léon] Carvalho, [Gustave-Hippolyte] Roger, Mmes Erard, Spontini, and Scheffer, etc.

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Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris, n.d.], to [Adolphe] Duchène de Vère, 1854 Jan. 15.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris, n.d.], to [Adolphe] Duchène de Vère, 1854 Jan. 15.

Saying he must attend Ar. Bertin's funeral and so will not be able to see Duchène and M. Lapierre until about 4:00.

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Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris, n.d.], to [Emile] Deschamps, [ca. 1839 Nov.?].

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris, n.d.], to [Emile] Deschamps, [ca. 1839 Nov.?].

Apologizing for the omission of Deschamps's name, saying that had he done for les Débats what he did for the Journal géneral de France the mistake would not have occurred, that he has sent fifteen or so lines to Th. Gauthier and St Chéron, that he hopes Jannin [i.e. Jules Janin] will publish something soon about Deschamps's "beaux vers [for Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette]," mentioning Armand [Bertin], Raoul Rochette, etc.

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Bertin, Armand, 1801-1854. Autograph letter signed : [n.p., Paris, n.d.], to [Louis-Désiré] Véron, [1834-1835?].

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p., Paris, n.d.], to [Louis-Désiré] Véron, [1834-1835?].

Sending Berlioz's libretto [for Benvenuto Cellini], saying that he has read it and re-read it and believes it to be "très propre à la musique, de Berlioz surtout, et à tous les developpemens de luxe, de mise en scène et de décorations nécessaires à l'Opéra," asking Véron to read it and not to be put off by the title and by "l'obscurité dramatique du nom de l'arrangeur," etc.

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Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Autograph letters signed (2), dated : [Paris], 28 April 1859, to [A.-J.] Lorentz 1845 Sept. 10.

Title: Autograph letters signed (2), dated : [Paris], 28 April 1859, to [A.-J.] Lorentz 1845 Sept. 10.

Suggesting [in 1845] that he take his manuscript to the Journal des débats between 6:00 and 7:00: M. Bertin is always there at that hour; and thanking him [in 1859, where the name is spelled Lorenz] for his letter, quoting (in French) a passage from Shakespears's Coriolanus, saying that he would like to be able to take Lorentz to Baden the coming August "pour vous chanter l'Adagio de Romeo et Juliette," quoting (in French, and slightly paraphrased) from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, II, ii ("Mon amour est immense et profond comme la mer," etc.), mentioning the comtesse Kalergi; at the end, Berlioz writes out the well-known melody from the "Scène d'amour" from Roméo.

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Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Autograph letters signed (3), dated : [Paris] and [n.d.], and Hanover, to [Jules] Janin, 1850 Dec. 9, 1853 Nov. 10, and n.d.

Title: Autograph letters signed (3), dated : [Paris] and [n.d.], and Hanover, to [Jules] Janin, 1850 Dec. 9, 1853 Nov. 10, and n.d.

Introducing Jacques Offenbach, reporting on the success of his concerts in Hanover and Brunswick, commenting on one of Janin's articles, mentioning Bertin and Nottès, etc.

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