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[MUSIC] - “...J’ai en horreur de parler de moi, et du reste, je vous avoue que je ne saurais absolument pas quoi dire.” - D’INDY Vincent - Beautiful autograph letter signed, dated “12 fev. 07” by the French composer. A famous co-founder of the Schola Cantorum, he was also known as a teacher and composer, who saw teaching as a vocation rather than a livelihood and willingly provided the necessary funds for his school from his own pocket. He preached, for example, his belief that a musical education should train the whole musician, meaning that the student should acquire a good knowledge of the theory and history of music as well as cultivate the practical side and technique, which ran counter to what was taught at the Conservatoire. His correspondent (a lady, most probably Elvire Thomas) must absolutely not count on the composer for a conference or a talk on ”L'Etranger” or on one of his works: “...J’ai en horreur de parler de moi, et du reste, je vous avoue que je ne saurais absolument pas quoi dire (...) Si vous voulez, je garderai le sujet que je vous donnerais dans la lettre que je vous envoi mais alors, il vaudrait bien memem garder aussi le projet du programme que je vous donnais et qui illustrait tres bien la causerie. C’est tres dommage que vous l’ayez abandonne, et vous m’aviez prevenu de cela a temps je vous aurais envoye ce qui manque de Destouches (...) Pour la matinee Vallas a lauquelle je me suis engage avec lui arrangez la chose avec W. HKauski, mais je n’ai le temps, partant ce soir pour Moscou...”. 1 p. 1⁄2 in-8. On mourning paper.