Found 11 collections related to Letters (correspondence)

Anonymous ms. poem addressed to Minna Planer as Sena in Solomon's Judgment, 1833 Feb. 14 ; 15 ALS, including 2 from Anton Hübsch of Königsberg, offering engagements at various theaters in Germany, 1833 Dec. 23 - 1836 March 6 ; 1 ALS from Minna Planer, Magdeburg, 1833 Dec. 27, to an unspecified theater director stating her conditions ; contract between Minna Planer and Anton Hübsch of the Königsberg Theater, 1836 March 28 ; newspaper, Unterhaltungsblätter, Königsberg, 1836 Nov. 5, containing an article on Minna Planer as an actress. A draft letter for Minna Planer in the hand of Richard Wagner is cataloged separately (NYPW91-A75). A ms. stagebook with Minna Planer's silent part in Auber's Die Stumme von Portici has been cataloged separately in the Books File (NYPG91-B1045). less

Author and recipient were pianist-composers active in Europe. Kalkbrenner asks Moscheles to sign a receipt for the sale of 2 concertos and gives news: music of Neate and Potter is being played by the Philharmonic Society rather than Beethoven symphonies; Cramer just missed breaking his thumb in a freak accident; Madame Pasta had a successful debut; and Kiesewetter played like a demon. less

Charles Gounod was a French composer. Sapho, his first opera, was first performed in 1851. His best known opera is Faust. The letter, beginning "Cher Enfant," is written to an unnamed young singer. Gounod congratulates her for the opportunity of studying the part of Sapho under Pauline Viardot, who created the role. He discusses proposed cuts in the performance and gives advice about interpretation. He also mentions that he has just finished the finale of the 3rd act of Faust. less

Hector Berlioz was a French composer. In 1837 the Minister of Fine Arts commissioned him to compose a Requiem Mass to be performed on the 7th anniversary of the heroes of July 28, 1830. He finished his Grande Messe des Morts on June 29, but days before the occasion, the bureaus cancelled the ceremony. The recipient, Pierre-Louis-Philippe Dietsch, was maitre de chapelle at St.-Eustache, and later at Ste.-Madeleine. ALS. Berlioz tells his choral conductor Dietsch that the ceremony for which the Requiem is being rehearsed has been cancelled, and says not to bother to come to the Conservatory with his "gamins.". less

As a young man, the German composer Richard Wagner was in love with actress Minna Planer who later became his first wife. Minna's standing as first tragic artist in the Magdeburg theater was being threatened by a Mme. Grabowsky. Bethmann was director of the theater. A scribbled draft in the hand of Richard Wagner of a letter for Minna Planer to send to Director Bethmann, demanding her rights as first tragic actress in the Magdeburg theater. The draft is written on the verso of a discarded letter, a rejection by Minna to an unnamed suitor. In the remaining space on the same sheet of paper, Natalie Planer (Minna's illegitimate daughter) has written an explanation of Richard Wagner's draft. less