Bidspirit auction | SAUGUET HENRI: (1901-1989)

SAUGUET HENRI: (1901-1989) - SAUGUET HENRI: (1901-1989) French Composer. Sauguet formed the 'School of Arcueil', named after the location of Satie's home. In 1924 Erik Satie introduced Sauguet to Serge Diaghilev, the flamboyant impresario of the Ballets Russes. In 1927 Diaghilev's company produced the ballet La Chatte (” The Cat ”) with music by Sauguet, who gained his greatest popularity with his ballets. A good A.L.S., ` Henri Sauguet´, four pages, 8vo, Paris, 18th April 1977, to Castor Seibel, in French. Sauguet returns from Eastern holidays in Gironde, and amusingly comments on the weather ` Je suis rentré de Gironde vendredi soir. Séjour en Alaska! Gelées, neiges, vents glacials, soleil du Pôle... ciels de plomb. Enfin c´étaient des Pâques aux tisons! Je passias hier la hournée en Champagne, boire du champagne et écouter des musiciensde l´harmonie populaire...´ (Translation: ” I returned from Gironde on Friday evening. A trip to Alaska! Frost, snow, icy winds, polar sun... leaden skies. Finally, it was Easter with embers! I spent yesterday afternoon in Champagne, drinking champagne and listening to folk band musicians...”) Further Sauguet explains to his correspondent that he will not be able to meet him on the date suggest because he won´t be in Paris but having a tour giving a lecture about the Russian Ballets, saying ` Le 22 je ne serai pas à Paris, à 17h je fais une conférence à Poitiers sur le Ballet Russe (que j´ai écouté pendant ces Pâques à Coutras). Je pars le 21 et ne rentrerai que le 24 car je répète cette même conférence le 23 au Mans, ou. en l´honneur des Ballets Russes on a fait une exposition et où l´on donne le 24 un concert au cours duquel sera exécuté La Chatte! A quelques jours près des 50 années de sa création à Monte Carlo (le 30 Avril 1927!)...´ (Translation: ” On the 22nd I will not be in Paris, at 5 p.m. I am giving a lecture in Poitiers on the Russian Ballet (which I listened to during Easter in Coutras). I am leaving on the 21st and will not return until the 24th because I am repeating this same lecture on the 23rd in Le Mans, where in honor of the Ballets Russes they have held an exhibition and where they are giving a concert on the 24th during which La Chatte will be performed! A few days before the 50th anniversary of its creation in Monte Carlo (April 30, 1927!)...”) Accompanied by the original envelope postmarked and stamped. VG Castor Seibel (1934-2022) German Writer, Poet and art Critic.A collector and expert in painting art. La Chatte (”The Cat”) is a ballet by Henri Sauguet, premiered in Montecarlo in 1927, with Serge Lifar. The story is about a young man who falls in love with a cat, which assumes a human form through the intervention of Aphrodite. As they make love, the cat-woman sees a mouse and cannot resist chasing it, whereupon she changes back into a cat. The work was choreographed by the young Georg Balanchine.