- Emmanuel CHABRIER. 2 L.A.S., January-July 1892, to composer Victorin Joncières; 3 pages in-12, the 2nd with address on back. [92-3 and 92-80]
On the hard work of musicians, while working at Briséïs. [La Membrolle] 6 January... He is "finishing the second act of my affair with Mendès. And it is hard to make a masterpiece nowadays. In any case, one should do so, because one puts time into it; poets make a sonnet in six months, musicians an opera in six years, it is only those damn painters, those Duez and other Gervexes who find the means of oiling them for heaps of money; oh, it cannot be said of us that we steal from the poor world, and here is a trade! Shred as, after all, Gounod must have done, to be called a doglit at 74 years of age, as well as Thomas, who is no longer even discussed and for whom epithets are lacking! And all the same, poor Faust is beginning to wear his cap askew; and M. de Mignon, who drags around a dirty accordion, is also quite disheveled! So, as I have just quoted two masterpieces, see what kind of old age we have in store for ourselves!"... - Gare St Lazare, 3rd July, after Joncière's failure at the Institute: "I pity you with all my heart [...] when misfortune is somewhere, it is there. [...] I assure you that I am very painfully impressed... then the children too, so proud of their father, at last, at last!
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