Autograph letter signed : [n.p., Paris?, n.d.], to an unidentified recipient, [n.d.].

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Autograph letter signed : [n.p., Paris?, n.d.], to an unidentified recipient, [n.d.].

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Saying that inasmuch as the recipient plays that evening at Court and goes afterward to M. Schlesinger, Meyerbeer has little hope that the enclosed ticket [not present] for the masked ball of will lead the recipient to Meyerbeer's box, but saying that, if only for a few moments, everyone in the box will be happy to see him.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864

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By 1831, Spontini's reputation has lost ground to the works of younger men, including Meyerbeer, whose Robert le Diable was first performed eight month after the date of this letter; this is perhaps the opera mentioned here, though Meyerbeer may be referring to the abortive Le Portefaix, the contract for which he had just signed. Despite the apparent warmth of their relationship, Spontini was already jealous. His own continuing lack of success he attributed to a plot orchestrated by Meyerbeer, "...

Schlesinger.

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