Reynaldo HAHN / Seven signed autograph letters / Music / Rehearsal / Proust

  
Set of seven signed autograph letters from Paris and s. L, between 1926 and 1935 and s. In in-24° and in-8° formats. Some date annotations in another hand on four letters. Musical correspondence of seven letters from the composer, some addressed to the playwright Maurice Donnay. "I would gladly write the music for the little songs, since you were kind enough to ask me." We will only transcribe a few fragments here. The first missive is dated July 1926. Thank you for your sending - I am waiting for the beginning of the 2nd act.

I will do my best to come to your place on Saturday: but if I am overwhelmed with work, Your devoted Reynaldo Hahn.] I will be happy to see you tomorrow and am very upset that a rather long letter I sent you [.] I will tell you tomorrow everything that I was writing to you.

There are indeed many other things [.] I think you have received the lyrics of the duo. I still do not know if I will be able to have lunch with you on Thursday. I am waiting for a response from Fanny Heldy, whom I must see on Wednesday or Thursday! She is very nice, very unhappy, and because Bravars had promised Adèle to her without telling me!!

(which I would never have done) [. He cannot go to the place indicated by his correspondent. "Please excuse my delay in responding to you.] Since my return from Italy, where I stayed for seven months, a stay during which I neglected everything, your play seems to me full of sensitivity, poetry, and does not need to be enhanced. Yet I would gladly write the music for the little songs, since you were kind enough to ask me; it will be very simple [.

] but forgive me for adding this, you might have done better to ask this little music from the exquisite poet, the delicate musician whose soul, both refined, tender, and popular, has brought to France and the French childhood profound penetrating refrains. Be that as it may, I am eager to please you [. "I believe that the first one in October will be taken up by preparatory rehearsals (lessons in the foyer, etc. Saint-Saëns will hardly attend, unless I am mistaken. The real rehearsals begin on the 20th or 25th.