Bidspirit auction | OFFENBACH JACQUES: (1819-1880)

OFFENBACH JACQUES: (1819-1880) - OFFENBACH JACQUES: (1819-1880) German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the Romantic period. A very interesting musical content A.L.S., ` J. Offenbach ´, two pages, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to A. Dessof, on his personal stationery, bearing his blind embossed initilas to the heading, in French. Offenbach sends multiple requests to the conductor Dessoff regarding the changes on his composition for the rehearsals, and states in part `Mon cher Dessof, Je suis assez souffrant aujourd´hui et ne puis sortir - voici lke 4eme acte complet - le commencement de l´air de Mlle Wildauer reste (6 mesures) la fin également - je vous envoie le milieu - donc vous n´avez plus rien à me demander. Vous trouverez également les changements et l´enlèvement du quintette - pendant que vous répétez les 3 1ers acte (si toutefois vousrépétez) faites copier je vous prie, les quelques mesures du changement - ou ce qui vaudrait mieux encore, si vous avez un moment, c´est de l´écrire dans les roles des artistes - il ne s´agit que d´une huitaine de mesures - pardon mon cher Desov de cette peine...´ (Translation: ” My dear Dessof, I am quite unwell today and cannot go out - here is the complete 4th act - the beginning of Miss Wildaner's aria remains (6 bars), as does the end - I am sending you the middle - so you have nothing more to ask of me. You will also find the changes and the removal of the quintet - while you rehearse the first 3 acts (if indeed you rehearse), please have the few bars of the change copied - or, even better, if you have a moment, write it in the artists' roles - it is only about eight bars - pardon me, my dear Dessof, for this trouble...”) With blank integral leaf. G Felix Otto Dessoff (1835-1892) German Conductor and Composer. Mathilde Wildauer (1820-1878) Austrian actress, later an operatic soprano, taking leading roles at the Theater Karntnertor in Vienna.