Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, 14 June 1826, to [Frédéric] Bérat in Rouen, 1826 June 14.

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Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, 14 June 1826, to [Frédéric] Bérat in Rouen, 1826 June 14.

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Thanking him for his sympathy on the death of St. Just, saying that his daughter Zenobie was ill all the past winter, and that his wife has not been well either--fortunately, he and Salvador are well--, but as Bérat can well imagine, composition "n'a pas été à l'ordre du jour:" Cherubini is too old and too busy to think of composing, etc.

1 item (3 p., with integral address leaf) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Bérat, Frédéric, 1801-1855

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x00004a ...

Cherubini, Luigi, 1760-1842

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Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) was an Italian composer and music instructor. He was a child music prodigy who went on to write many popular operas as an adult. He moved to France in 1785, where he continued to live and work, successfully surviving the tumultuous regime changes of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. After the end of the eighteenth century, Cherubini's operatic work was less successful and so he began composing church music. In 1822, he became director of the prestigious Conser...

Saint-Just, Godard d'Aucourt de.

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Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection (Pierpont Morgan Library)

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