GRIEG EDVARD Autograph Letter Signed to music publisher Heug

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"I WAS RATHER SHORTSIGHTED IN . . . GIVING AS GIFTS . . . MY . . . COMPOSITIONS" GRIEG, EDVARD. Autograph Letter Signed, to music publisher Heugel & Brothers, in French, explaining that he had signed away the rights of his early compositions to Horneman & Erslev, noting that the lack of a convention between Denmark and Germany has resulted in his works being pirated in Germany, and adding that no convention exists between Denmark and France. 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, written on a folded sheet; separation and small hole at center vertical fold (not affecting text), minor toning along edges of first page, horizontal folds. Bergen, Norway, 26 April 1882

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". . . [U]nfortunately in my youth I was rather shortsighted in . . . giving as gifts most of my piano works and my best known vocal compositions, such as op. 6 (Humoresque) 12, 14, 19 (Scenes of National Life) among which march of the peasants, to Danish editors Horneman & Erslev[;] at present the edition has passed to Vilhelm Hansen in Copenhagen. I was rather unwise to allow all these compositions . . . for all countries, without suspecting the consequences. However as there is no literary convention between Denmark and Germany, my compositions have been pirated there to a considerable extent. . . . I have not been able to sign any sales agreement or ask for royalties. . . . I leave the matter to your skills and your interest in my art. I don't believe there is a convention between Denmark and France."