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1109 - [CLAUDE DEBUSSY]. Original photograph, [1904]; silver gelatin print, 12.7 x 18 cm; mounted on gray card, 20 x 26 cm. Autograph letter signed by the composer’s wife, Emma Debussy, addressed to composer and conductor Philippe Gaubert: “To P. Gaubert, With grateful regards / EmmaClaude Debussy.”
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[CLAUDE DEBUSSY]. Original photograph, [1904]; silver gelatin print, 12.7 x 18 cm; mounted on gray card, 20 x 26 cm. Autograph letter signed by the composer’s wife, Emma Debussy, addressed to composer and conductor Philippe Gaubert: “To P. Gaubert, With grateful regards / EmmaClaude Debussy.” Photograph of the composer in profile, leaning on a balcony, against a backdrop of the Normandy countryside (Fr. Lesure, *Debussy, Iconographie musicale*, 1980, pl. 90). It was taken in August 1904 in Pourville, where Debussy—who had just broken up with Lilly Texier—had gone with his new partner, Emma Bardac, whom he would marry in 1908. It was likely she who took this photograph.
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