AUBER, DANIEL-FRANÇOIS-ESPRIT Autograph manuscript of the song "Sur les bords écumants des fleuves qui roulent des flots", for voice and piano the composing manuscript, essentially complete, notated in brown ink, comprising four strophes, only the voice part notated for the second, and much of the fourth, with numerous cancellations, revisions and corrections 3 pages, folio (35 x 26.4cm), 24-stave paper, blind-stamped "Collection Viardot", some later pencil annotations, no place or date [1840-1841] Auber's mélodie, setting words by Alphonse de Lamartine, was performed at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris for the benefit of the victims of floods in the Rhone valley in October 1840. Lamartine's poem was published in Histoire des inondations du Rhône et de la Saône, depuis leur source jusqu'à leur embouchure, en l'année 1840 (Lyons 1841). PROVENANCE:From the collection of the opera singer Pauline Viardot (1821-1910)
AUBER, DANIEL-FRANÇOIS-ESPRIT Autograph manuscript of the song "Sur les bords écumants des fleuves qui roulent des flots", for voice and piano the composing manuscript, essentially complete, notated in brown ink, comprising four strophes, only the voice part notated for the second, and much of the fourth, with numerous cancellations, revisions and corrections 3 pages, folio (35 x 26.4cm), 24-stave paper, blind-stamped "Collection Viardot", some later pencil annotations, no place or date [1840-1841] Auber's mélodie, setting words by Alphonse de Lamartine, was performed at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris for the benefit of the victims of floods in the Rhone valley in October 1840. Lamartine's poem was published in Histoire des inondations du Rhône et de la Saône, depuis leur source jusqu'à leur embouchure, en l'année 1840 (Lyons 1841). PROVENANCE:From the collection of the opera singer Pauline Viardot (1821-1910)
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