BRÉVILLE (Pierre de, 1861-1949, French Composer)

'Épitaphe', a charming setting for voice and piano, 2/4 in B flat, the words from the inscription of 1621 in the church at Senan on the tomb of Marie Dupuis, including her anagram 'Dieu m'a prise', telling her husband that she was taken in the spring of her life to avoid the storms of autumn, signed and inscribed in French to the soprano Madame Henriette Fuchs "Respectful Homage", title with the heading of the epitaph within a renaissance border, 1+2 sides 13¾" x 10½", Paris, E. Baudoux & Cie., lacks (?blank) conjugate leaf to title, edges professionally repaired



Item Date:  1899

Stock No:  54506      £65

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