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PREPARING FOR EUROPEAN PREMIERE OF "THE ÉTUDES" DEBUSSY, CLAUDE. Autograph Letter Signed, to pianist Walter Morse Rummel, agreeing to the date of December 14, authorizing him to describe the occasion as the "first audition of the Études of C.D.," reporting that his wife remains ill, and requesting that the sixteenth-notes not be disturbed until they arrive. 1 1/4 pages, oblong 12mo, written on the recto and verso of a card. [Paris], 26 November 1916
". . . Thursday Dec. 14 is an excellent date . . . . "You may certainly put the 1st audition for the Etudes of C.D. unless someone has played them in Sirius or Aldéberan. "What is less funny is Madame Debussy who continues to be sick . . . . our pleasure of Thursday is going to find itself a little compromised. In any case do not disturb the sixteenth notes . . . ." On December 14, 1916, Walter Rummel performed the European premiere of Debussy's Études at a war victim benefit concert in Paris; the world premiere was in New York on November 19 of that year, when George Copeland performed "Arpèges composés" and "Sonorités opposées."
