[Air de la tabatière] : autograph manuscript of a song : [Paris], undated [circa 1904].

Record ID: 
405178
Accession number: 
MA 9037
Author: 
Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907.
Credit: 
Purchased, 2017.
Description: 
1 item (2 pages) ; 31.0 x 20.0 cm
Notes: 

This song was included, in a revised version, in the comic opera "Le Manoir enchantè", a collaboration by Jarry with writer Eugène Demolder and composer Claude Terrasse, written in 1904 and performed only once on January 10, 1905.
The manuscript is undated and the place of writing not given however the auction catalog shows the place of writing as Paris and the date as circa 1904.

Summary: 

Being an autograph manuscript of an early version of a song in three verses with revisions and corrections throughout in the hand of Claude Terrasse.

Provenance: 
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund at the sale of the Bibliothèque Jean A. Bonna, Pierre Bergé, Paris, April 2017, Lot 198.