BERLIOZ Hector (1803 - 1869) Lot n° 18

L.A.S. "H. Berlioz", 6 September 1854, to Amédée MÉREAUX; 2 pages in-8. Beautiful letter on music. He thanks him for his learned and benevolent article [in the Journal de Rouen, on Berlioz's failure at the Institut]: "You fill me with joy. How many people say what you have said in your feuilleton on the Institut, who should have written it already, but who refrain from doing so. One should not be saddened by this more than by any other absurdity; music, in our country, is a tolerated art; it is pushed around, hit, spat in the face, and one claims to treat it well... Fortunately we are a certain number of resigned musicians, who love it all the more because it is more unhappy, and who have a deeper respect for it because it is more outraged. Then he alludes to L'Enfance du Christ for which Méreaux is preparing the piano-chant score: "Where is our Dream? He leaves for a short trip to the South of France. "They are waiting for my score in Weimar for the German translation; that of L'Arrivée à Saïs is already finished... Correspondence, t. VIII, p. 395 (n° 1787bis).