Record ID:
114397
Accession number:
Cary 507
Creator:
Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.
Biographical Data:
French composer.
Title:
Duet from the cantata Diane au bois : autograph manuscript, between 1883 and 1886.
Uniform title:
Diane au bois. Eros et Diane (Sketches)
Date:
between 1883 and 1886.
Inscription/Markings:
"Diane au bois. Comédie héroïque de Th. de Banville. Fragments lyriques.1o Duo.--Eros et Diane". On the verso of the last (otherwise blank) leaf Debussy has written out the text of Alfred de Musset's poem "Chanson."
Notes:
Dramatic cantata (uncompleted).
Short score.
Provenance:
Alfred Cortot; Robert Owen Lehman.
Associated names:
Banville, Théodore Faullain de, 1823-1891.
Cortot, Alfred, 1877-1962, former owner.
Lehman, Robin, former owner.
Musset, Alfred de, 1810-1857. Chanson.
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