Music - Entertainment - Lot 199

Music - Entertainment Louis VIARDOT (1800-1883). Writer, art critic and translator. Director of the Théâtre des Italiens from 1838 to 1840, he gave up his post to take care of the career of his wife, singer Pauline GARCIA, sister of La MALIBRAN. - Bored. Paris, May 2, 1861. Very busy with her rehearsals, Pauline VIARDOT instructs her husband to respond to a request for a charity concert on the following May 11, telling his correspondent to contact M. RÉTY, her stage manager, who is solely responsible for his commitments. - Enclosed, a s. visiting card from actress Cécile SOREL, Comtesse de SÉGUR by marriage, offering M. Rondel, librarian at L'Arsenal, two tickets for one of her January 1934 shows. Envelope. Cosima WAGNER (1837-1930). Daughter of Franz Liszt and Marie d'Agoult. In 1857, she married the German conductor Hans von BÜLOW, then became the second wife of Richard WAGNER, with whom she had three children. - Las "de Bülow" to M. de Radowitz, chargé d'affaires de Prusse, s.l. June 9, 1868, one page in-8. About a shipment of books and regrets having missed it that very morning. Sigismond THALBERG (1812-1871). Famous German pianist. - Las Saint-Cloud s.d. to historian Adrien Jarry de Mancy. To thank him for a shipment of medals. Expert: Mario MORDENTE