Air de Balthazar from Daniel : autograph manuscript, 1882.

Record ID: 
429050
Accession number: 
D289.D184
Creator: 
Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.
Biographical Data: 
French composer.
Title: 
Air de Balthazar from Daniel : autograph manuscript, 1882.
Uniform title: 
Daniel. Selections
Date: 
1882.
Inscription/Markings: 

"Air"--Caption.
Inscribed in another hand ..."inédit de Claude De Bussy auteur de Pelléas et Melisande...air composé vers 1885 donné à M. Georges Marquet du Conservatoire de Paris"--Caption.

Notes: 

Cantata for 3 soloists and orchestra; includes the air of Balthazar and an incomplete duo for Balthazar and Adéna.
9 pages of music; 3 blank pages.
Poem by Émile Cicile.

Provenance: 

Georges Marquet; R. Legouix; J.-M. Martin; Hôtel Drouot (1979); Sotheby's, London (1989).

Associated names: 

Cicile, Émile, author.
Marquet, Georges, former owner.
Legouix, Robert, 1889-1955, former owner.
Martin, J.-M., former owner.