BLUMENTHAL (Jacques, 1829-1908, German-born Composer and Pianist to Queen Victoria)

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Jeune, (Mary, wife, 1881, of Francis Henry Jeune, judge, from 1905 Baron St. Helier), saying he has "secured the best German Liedersänger for you, Herr Zur Mühlen", (Raimund von, 1854-1931), "You must give him a good place in the Programme ... Towards end of 1st Part - or beginning of 2nd will be good", and (with apologies) "If you write to him you must write more clearly - these foreigners have great difficulty in reading any English Handwriting & yours is not one of the easiest when you are in a hurry (wh. I suppose you generally are). Hollmann", the Dutch 'cellist, "sent me on your letter ... to explain it, so I told him the contents", and asking her to send both a printed programme "that they may see when they come on", 4 sides 8vo., 43 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington Gore, S.W., 3rd June

Mrs Jeune's weekly dinners were famous for bringing together people in public life of all kinds. Blumenthal names Zur Mühlen's songs, by Grieg, Schumann, and Maude V. White. He studied with Clara Schumann, with whom he set up the 'Schumann Lieder Evenings'. A fellow pupil was the pianist Mathilde Verne, who briefly fell in love with him. He later settled in England at Steyning.

Item Date:  1890

Stock No:  55511      £175

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