GOETHE JOHANN WOLFGANG VON (1749-1832) Lot n° 193

Autograph MANUSCRIT (fragment), Johann von Paris,[1815]; 1 page in-4; in German, Latin script. Title page of the "Finale" for the comic opera Jean de Paris by Boieldieu, to celebrate the return to Weimar, on 8 June 1815, of Charles-Auguste, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, returning from the Vienna Congress. "Bey Rückkehr Ihro Konigl Hoheit of the Grosherzogs von Wien. - Finale zu Johann von Paris". (For the return of His Royal Highness, the Grand Duke of Vienna. - Final for Jean de Paris). At the bottom, authentication of the writing by Ottilie von Goethe, responsible for the dispersion of the manuscript of his father-in-law's poem, each fragment bearing his authentication. The poem written by Goethe to celebrate the Duke's return, counting 97 verses, was intended to be read during the performance of Jean de Paris de Boieldieu at the Weimar Theatre on 13 June 1815.