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At top of page 2: "No. 3. La Déesse Vénus. (Pas des Nymphes.)"

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autograph music manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors, several dozen signed musical quotations, and a small amount of ephemera including portraits and cartes de visite. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor...

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Fully scored though instruments not specified.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autograph music manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors, several dozen signed musical quotations, and a small amount of ephemera including portraits and cartes de visite. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor...

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The work is subtitled "Duo pour Soprano et Contralto avec accompt de Piano, Violons, Altos, Violoncelle et ContraBasses et deux Cors." Credits given in Gounod's hand: "Poésie de Racine (Choeurs d'Athalie). Musique de Ch. Gounod". At the top of the title page is the inscription: "A mes amies Marie Thérèse de Ségur et Marie de Goulaine." Toward the foot of the page Gounod wrote: "Ce manuscrit appartient à Marie de Goulaine. Ch. Gounod"

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Published by Henry Lemoine & Cie, 17, Rue Pigalle, Paris. -- Bruxelles, 13, Rue de la Madeleine.

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This item is filed and described under "Beethoven, Ludwig van" above.

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This manuscript is badly faded due to exposure to sunlight; almost all of the lyrics on the first page are illegible (a few are visible using magnification) while those on page 2 are faded but legible. There is an authenticator's attestation at the top of page 1: "Melodie autographe de Gabriel Fauré." Among the legible lyrics are, toward the end, "il la poursuit" (repeated) and, at the end, "elle s'en fuit."

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The date of this inscribed copy is unknown, though Chaminade and di Rienzi collaborated on the song "Lettres d'amour," published in Paris by Enoch & Cie., 1910.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autograph music manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors, several dozen signed musical quotations, and a small amount of ephemera including portraits and cartes de visite. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor...

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Autograph manuscript signed, first performed on the ship "Rhein," 4 pages. Song for two tenors and bass. Separate leaf for each part and an additional one combining all three. Presentation inscription to a Captain Meyer, first performer of the first tenor part. With a second set of parts (three pages) transcribed by B Böttgen. This work is a ninth song added to the original eight of opus 398 and published by Andre in 1878 as Neun patriotische Lieder für vierstimmige Männerchor.

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Sent from Braunschweig to Julius Bantlin in Cincinnati, accompanied by a one page letter dated 1880 September 18 and a steel engraving of the composer.