WAGNER, RICHARD. Autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner"), in French, to Monsieur Schäffer, requesting the exact name for an inscription on a score of Tannhauser and the use of a piano. Paris, 26 September 1858. 3 pages, 8vo, on rectos and verso of folded sheet; matted and framed (double-glazed) with cabinet portrait showing the composer in profile. Translates in part: "...I forgot to ask you yesterday to give me the exact name of Madame Enard, for the dedication [i.e. inscription], on my score of Tannhauser. Could you kindly send them... I am planning to come see you today or tomorrow to ask you whether you could possibly rent me for one or 2 weeks (that is, until I get back my piano) any one of your instruments that is available and that you could most easily lend me for these few days. I would be infinitely obliged to you, if you would have one place in my little temporary salon..." At the end Wagner asks Schäffer to excuse his "terrible français."
WAGNER, RICHARD. Autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner"), in French, to Monsieur Schäffer, requesting the exact name for an inscription on a score of Tannhauser and the use of a piano. Paris, 26 September 1858. 3 pages, 8vo, on rectos and verso of folded sheet; matted and framed (double-glazed) with cabinet portrait showing the composer in profile. Translates in part: "...I forgot to ask you yesterday to give me the exact name of Madame Enard, for the dedication [i.e. inscription], on my score of Tannhauser. Could you kindly send them... I am planning to come see you today or tomorrow to ask you whether you could possibly rent me for one or 2 weeks (that is, until I get back my piano) any one of your instruments that is available and that you could most easily lend me for these few days. I would be infinitely obliged to you, if you would have one place in my little temporary salon..." At the end Wagner asks Schäffer to excuse his "terrible français."
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