Emmanuel CHABRIER (1841-1894). L.A.S. with music, [ca. 1881?], to Charles Lamoureux; 3 pages in-8 Amusing letter to the conductor illustrated with two musical quotations. [1881 ?]. Miss Lamoureux has invited his wife to her dressing room, but Chabrier would like two more seats for friends: "I am not a man to whine, ah! [...] please have them given to my good German girl who is there in the next room, and who, with her heavy viola foot, will bring them to the two friends who are sighing afterwards. He will be tomorrow (in music) "at the post where one awaits me", and he adds (in music): "You are full of cunning!"...

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