Subasta Bidspirit | MASSENET JULES: (1842-1912) French Composer.

MASSENET JULES: (1842-1912) French Composer. A.L.S., Massenet, underlined in his hand as a musical q... - MASSENET JULES: (1842-1912) French Composer. A.L.S., Massenet, underlined in his hand as a musical quote, three pages, 8vo, Paris, 24th March 1898, to an unidentified friend he addressed to as ''Dear President«, in French. Massenet thanks his correspondent for his invitation stating in part `Doing the impossible I will arrive on purpose and directly from Italy on 2nd of May in the morning in order to be the same evening of 2nd of May at six in the evening in Brussels (not before unfortunately)..« Massenet further explains that he has to be in Paris the day after, and adds two post-scriptum, the second saying `I have no power to obtain from Monsieur the director of the Opera Comique the authorization I wish to get. - Think in ''Sapho'' - but you, you are so powerful!« Folded. VG £150-200 Sapho (1897) is a five acts opera or Lyric play by Massenet, based on the novel of same name by Alphonse Daudet. First performed at the Opera Comique in Paris, with Emma CalvŽ.