Record ID:
422670
Accession number:
PMC 2326
Creator:
Godard, Benjamin, 1849-1895, composer.
Biographical Data:
French composer.
Title:
Amour fatal / poésie de Prosper Blanchemain ; musique de Benjamin Godard.
Uniform title:
Amour fatal
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund, 2017.
Inscription/Markings:
Verso of title page inscribed: "A Prosper Blanchemain. / Poète, tes beaux vers ont fait battre mon cœur, / J'ai compris les accents profonds de ta douleur. / Puissé-je avoir su prendre un peu de ton génie / Pour faire résonner les voix de l'harmonie. / Benjamin Godard".
Notes:
For voice and piano.
Title page: Lithograph of a man at the foot of a monument inscribed "Anatkh" surrounded by a woman and Cupid, with boat in a turbulent ocean in the background, signed "Chatiniere".
"Prix 5f"--Title page.
Provenance:
Prosper Blanchemain.
Associated names:
Blanchemain, Prosper, 1816-1879, author.
Chatinière, Antonin Marie, 1828- illustrator.
Blanchemain, Prosper, 1816-1879, former owner.
Department:
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