Music/Dance
BOURGAULT-DUCOUDRAY
(Louis Albert, 1840-1910, Breton Composer & Scholar)
Light hearted song 'Les Papillons' ('The Butterflies'),
F major in 6/8, words by Théophile Gautier (1811-1872), saying that if he could follow the butterflies, he would fly to his beloved's lips, signed and inscribed Respectful Homage in French to the soprano Madame Henriette Fuchs, with her blind embossed stamp, lithographed title frame with roses and butterflies, 1+3 sides 13¾ x 10½, Théodore Michaelis, Paris, no date, circa
Item Date: 1875
Background
Together with a copy of 'La Chanson d'une mère' by A. Bourgault-Ducoudray (?brother or sister of Louis), an attractive song with words by '***', signed and inscribed A. Bourgault (in a different hand from Louis') to Madame Fuchs, and dedicated to Madame Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, 1 + 3 sides 13¾ x 10½, Felix Mackar, Paris, no date, circa 1875. The title also advertises by the same author a setting of Victor Hugo's powerful ditty 'Le Chant de ceux qui s'en vont sur mer' (1853).
edges a little frayed, separated at centre folds, both without loss
Stock No. 54502