Handwritten Letter on Musical Matters by KORSAKOV-RIMSKY, NICOLAI
by KORSAKOV-RIMSKY, NICOLAI
Handwritten Letter on Musical Matters
by KORSAKOV-RIMSKY, NICOLAI
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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, NICOLAI ANDREYEVICH. (1844-1908). Russian composer of The Snow Maiden, Sadko and Scheherazade. ALS. ("N.A. Korsakov"). 1p. 8vo. Saint Petersburg, September 14, 1903. To Vasily Ilyich. In Russian with translation.
"I did not have the time or inclination. I came back to Saint Petersburg and found an old romance. I am ready to send it to you but waiting your response (not in the form of a poem) that you forgot to write: do I have any rights to pass this romance on to whomever I want after 2 years. I presume it will not hurt your publication because after 2 years nobody would buy it. I will mail it to you as soon as I receive a positive answer… with a poem…"
Rimsky-Korsakov was a prolific composer whose works included operas, symphonies, marches, concerti, songs, chamber music, and folksong collections. In 1888, he composed Scheherazade, an orchestral work inspired by The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (better known as The Arabian Nights). It became extremely popular and, in 1910, despite his widow's disapproval, the Ballet Russes staged Scheherazade with choreography by Michel Fokine, a libretto by Fokine and Léon Bakst, and Rimsky-Korsakov's famous music.
At the time of our letter, Rimsky-Korsakov was working on his four-act opera The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya. He had first become interested in adapting two Russian legends in 1898 while working on The Tale of Tsar Saltan with his friend, poet and librettist Vladimir I. Belsky, with whom he also wrote The Golden Cockerel. Although Belsky had begun his work on City of Kitezh in 1901, Rimsky-Korsakov became exasperated with his slow progress, chiding him through letters and poems. In September 1902, Rimsky-Korsakov wrote to Belsky, "including in the letter a quatrain from a satirical poem by the fictitious wordsmith Kozma Prutkov... which he altered in jest to read: 'The leaf withers / Summer passes / Wet snow falls / For want of a libretto / I could shoot myself.' ... Rimsky-Korsakov received the draft scenario of the Legend of Kitzeh [from Belsky] on 13 July 1903," (Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement, Morrison).
Our letter is possibly written to Russian pianist, conductor, composer, and teacher Vasily Ilyich Safonov (1852-1918), who directed the Moscow Conservatory and conducted the premiere of Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony.
Penned on a folded sheet with some creasing, pencil erasures and wear. A small chip in the lower margin affects one letter. In fine condition. With an unrelated envelope addressed in Rimsky-Korsakov's hand to Ivan Ivanovich Sidorov care of the Russian composer Boris Lvovich Levenzon.
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Autograph letter signed "Bellini" to Count Rodolphe Apponyi
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Early Autograph Letter Signed Reserving a Venue for the Premiere of His "Harold en Italie"
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"I am planning to give three concerts over the course of next November. The Salle des Menus Plaisirs, which you have been kind enough to make available to me several times in the past, is really the only venue in Paris that lends itself to these kinds of musical events. So I request that you will grant me permission to hold mine there. These concerts, just like the ones I gave last years, would take place on Sundays at 2 in the afternoon. With all my respect, dear General Intendant, your humble servant…"
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"S'occuper c'est savoir jouir
L'oisiveté pèse et tourmente;
L'âme est un feu, qu'il faut nourrir
Et qui s'éteint, s'il ne s'augmente"
[Translation:]
"To keep busy is to know how to enjoy
Idleness weighs and torments;
The soul is a fire, which must be fed
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"Memorandum
Mr de Bougainville begs Monseigneur the Duke de Choiseul to be good enough to grant Sir de Romainville an appointment of infantry lieutenant. This young man embarks with him and must be employed in the colony both for detachments and for the reconnaissance of the island. He's already participated to the campaigns of 1759 and 1760 and 1761 as volunteer in the chasseurs of Conflans and that of 1762 as aide-de-camp of Mr. Dennery chief of the Condé army general staff..."
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"Confidential" Typed Letter Signed by WINSTON CHURCHILL: with handwritten additions by Churchill.
by Winston Churchill
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Autograph letter signed "Bellini" to Count Rodolphe Apponyi
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Early Autograph Letter Signed Reserving a Venue for the Premiere of His "Harold en Italie"
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"I am planning to give three concerts over the course of next November. The Salle des Menus Plaisirs, which you have been kind enough to make available to me several times in the past, is really the only venue in Paris that lends itself to these kinds of musical events. So I request that you will grant me permission to hold mine there. These concerts, just like the ones I gave last years, would take place on Sundays at 2 in the afternoon. With all my respect, dear General Intendant, your humble servant…"
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The Russian Novelist, Poet and Playwright Writes Out and Signs a Quotation from French Philosopher Voltaire
by TURGENEV, IVAN
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"S'occuper c'est savoir jouir
L'oisiveté pèse et tourmente;
L'âme est un feu, qu'il faut nourrir
Et qui s'éteint, s'il ne s'augmente"
[Translation:]
"To keep busy is to know how to enjoy
Idleness weighs and torments;
The soul is a fire, which must be fed
And which goes out, if it does not grow"Following his education in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Turgenev left for Berlin to study philosophy and history at the university where he became enamored of Germany and its development since the Age… Read More
Bougainville Requests Support for an Officer Destined to Serve in the Falkland Islands and Aboard Bougainville’s Historic Circumnavigation of the World
by BOUGAINVILLE, LOUIS-ANTOINE
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"Memorandum
Mr de Bougainville begs Monseigneur the Duke de Choiseul to be good enough to grant Sir de Romainville an appointment of infantry lieutenant. This young man embarks with him and must be employed in the colony both for detachments and for the reconnaissance of the island. He's already participated to the campaigns of 1759 and 1760 and 1761 as volunteer in the chasseurs of Conflans and that of 1762 as aide-de-camp of Mr. Dennery chief of the Condé army general staff..."
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"Confidential" Typed Letter Signed by WINSTON CHURCHILL: with handwritten additions by Churchill.
by Winston Churchill
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