Debussy, Claude.

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

Autograph sketch for the song 'Lorsqu'elle est entrée', from the unfinished song cycle Nuits blanches
ink on paper

comprising five bars in all, for bars 18-22 of the finished song, notated in blue ink on a single four-stave system, the voice part occupying the first stave, the piano part the third and fourth staves, with one autograph deletion, 1 page, cut down from a larger leaf (c.20 x 30cm), integral blank, Lard-Esnault paper, 15 machine-ruled staves visible, no place or date [c.August-September 1898], some light dust-marking

Catalogue Note

This is the only known sketch for "Lorsqu'elle est entrée". It contains music for the words "Oh! torturer une à une les veines de son chair corps...Ensevelir sa chair dans ma chair. Avec [la joie...]". We are pleased to acknowledge the assistance of Professor Robert Orledge in our cataloguing.