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DEBUSSY CLAUDE: (1862-1918)
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DEBUSSY CLAUDE: (1862-1918)
‘….. it is not necessary to hear the song of the nightingale,
that of the locomotives answering much better to the modern preoccupations of art!’
DEBUSSY CLAUDE: (1862-1918) French composer. A charming A.L.S., Claude Debussy, two pages, small oblong 8vo, Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 9th September 1909, to G. F. Aubry ('Mon cher ami'), in French. Debussy compliments his correspondent on their lyrical poem, commenting that he has found it to be 'tout a fait ingenieuse et poetique naturellement' (Translation: 'quite ingenious and naturally poetic'), remarking 'Les poetes contemporains ont trop souvent le singulier travers d'extraire du lyrisme eperdu de sujets cruellement quelconques' (Translation: 'Contemporary poets too often have the singular failing of extracting desperate lyricism from cruelly unremarkable subjects'), and adding that he spent the summer 'a l'ombre du chemin [de] fer de ceinture qui borde ma maison' (Translation: 'in the shadow of the railway line that borders my house') and reflecting 'qu'il n'est pas necessaire d'entendre le chant du rossignol, celui des locomotives repondant bien mieux aux preoccupations modernes de l'art!' (Translation 'that it is not necessary to hear the song of the nightingale, that of the locomotives answering much better to the modern preoccupations of art!). Accompanied by the original envelope (front panel only) hand addressed by Debussy. VG
