CHARPENTIER GUSTAVE Autograph Musical Quotation Inscribed an

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THE PROGENITOR OF "LOUISE" CHARPENTIER, GUSTAVE. Autograph Musical Quotation Inscribed and Signed, "G.Charpentier," to Miss Mane[?] Louise Nicole, on a photograph postcard, in purple ink, 5 bars from The Coronation of the Muse, notated on a hand-drawn stave with holograph lyrics, in French. The verso is a photograph showing a scene from the Nancy, France, production of Coronation, circa 1909. 1 page, oblong 12mo; quotation written vertically, cancelled 10-centime stamp on photo side at upper left. Np, circa 1912

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In June of 1897, Charpentier's La couronnement de la muse was performed as part of a festival at the New Theater in Paris; elements of the loosely-structured performance became the third act of his opera, Louise.