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Bartok Bela. 1881 1945 Dukas Paul. 1865 1935ABAA

Autograph Letter to Prunieres Lamenting a Missed Meeting with Bartok

Best.-Nr. 14186Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Neatly penned autograph letter one page 5 x 6.5 no date but postmarked April 6 1922. Addressed on the reverse in Dukas's own hand to Henri Prunières and signed "Paul Dukas." The letter apologizes for missing a visit from the addressee and from "Monsieur Béla Bartok whose acquaintance I would have been delighted to make. All the more so since I must respond to your kind invitation for Saturday. I have to be in Valenciennes on Sunday to help with the concert of the Societé du Conservatoire there. And if I don't take the train at 5:10 in the evening on Saturday I will have to get up at 6:30 to leave on Sunday morning! So in this case despite all my regrets I must excuse myself." A scarce and rather charming letter from the French composer critic scholar and teacher best known for his "L'apprenti sorcier "The Sorcerer's Apprentice and his opera "Ariane et Barbe-bleue." Bartok's 1922 visit to Paris was part of a larger concert tour of Britain France and Germany ending with the premieres of Bluebeard's Castle and The Wooden Prince on 13 May in Frankfurt. In Paris he met important French composers including Francis Poulenc and Erik Satie. The Saturday soirée to which Dukas refers would have taken place just after an occasion recalled by Poulenc: "I remember a strange lunch on Saturday 8 April 1922 where Bartok and Satie met at my house for the first and last time. Like two birds who do not sing the same tune Bartok and Satie observed each other with suspicion and maintained an overwhelming silence that Auric and I tried in vain to break. For me it is an extraordinary and symbolic memory." Quoted in Entrancing Muse: A Documented Biography of Francis Poulenc p. 113. Henri Prunières 1861-1942 was a French musicologist and international propagandist of contemporary art in various forms: music dance painting etc. He occupies especially in music an important place in the art world between the wars. His major contribution was La Revue musicale a monthly musical periodical which he founded in 1920 and left in 1939. unknown books

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Bluebeard's Castle an opera. 6 fine original costume designs in watercolor by noted American artist Robert Perdziola born 1961 each titled and signed the artist in pencil with all but 1 dated October 1981

Best.-Nr. 39912The designs represent the characters Bluebeard Judith his current wife 2 and his 3 former wives. Sheet size 456 x 305 mm. Some minor light browning. In very good condition overall. "Bluebeard's Castle Hungarian: A kékszakállú herceg vára literally The Blue-Bearded Duke's Castle is a one-act Symbolist opera . to a Hungarian libretto by his friend and poet Béla Balázs. Based on the French folk legend or conte populaire as told by Charles Perrault it l. deploys just two singing characters: Bluebeard Kékszakállú and his newest wife Judith Judit; the two have just eloped and she is coming home to his castle for the first time." Wikipedia ". the one-act opera A Kékszakállú herceg vára 'Bluebeard's Castle' 1911 is however a masterful Hungarian emulation of the realism of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. Written to an expressionistic libretto by Béla Balázs about the 'mystery of the soul' the action of Bluebeard's Castle is negligible involving just two singing protagonists Bluebeard and his new wife Judith who progress through the opening of the eponymous castle's seven doors drawn by the woman's curiosity. The opera's climactic turning-point comes at the fifth door to Bluebeard's kingdom after which Judith's jealousy becomes obsessive leading to her eventual entombment along with all Bluebeard's previous wives and eternal darkness. Bartók's work changed the course of Hungarian opera by successfully developing a fluid form of Hungarian declamation of Balázs's ballad-like text based largely upon the inflections of parlando rubato folksong." Malcolm Gillies in Grove Music Online Perdziola an internationally-recognized set and costume designer for theater opera and ballet has worked extensively throughout the United States at such venues as the Metropolitan Opera San Francisco Opera Santa Fe Opera Lyric Theatre of Chicago American Ballet Theater Shakespeare Theater in Washington Boston Ballet and Miami Ballet as well as for various Broadway productions. He has also worked internationally for productions at the Monte Carlo Opera the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester in Hannover the Garsington Opera in the United Kingdom the Finnish National Ballet the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan and the Sydney Opera House. The artist has received three Helen Hayes awards and a Helpmann award; he has also been nominated for numerous additional awards. unknown

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