- Creator
- Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869
- Call number
- JOB 91-52
- Physical description
- 1 item
- Language
- In French
- Preferred Citation
- Letter : from M. Berlioz, [Paris], to Mons. Dietch [sic], rue du Melder 14 bis, [Paris], Music Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Music Division
- Access to materials
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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.".
Bibliography
Published: Les années romantiques, 1819-1842 : correspondence / Hector Berlioz ; publiée par Julien Tiersot. Paris : Calmann-Lévy, [1904]. Chapitre IV: IX (p. 345-346)
Key terms
Names
- Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869
- Dietsch, Pierre Louis Philippe, 1808-1865
- New York Public Library. Music Division. Drexel Collection
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Location
Music DivisionNew York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor
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