Henri DUPARC (1848-1933). L.A.S., November 23, 1900, [at Rhené-Baton?]; 2 pages in-8. About a melody on Baudelaire's poem La Mort des amants (besides Debussy in 1890, the poem was set to music by Rhené-Baton in 1900, Gustave Charpentier in 1895, Gaston Serpette around 1897). "I have just reread these few pages, which I thought I knew very badly, for I was terribly tired the day you played them for me, and I had the pleasure of recognizing every note, every accent. It's to tell you how much I was struck by it: the return of time after the eventful passage is perhaps what I like best: it's really very penetrating. If you allow me, I'll draw your attention, when I have the pleasure of seeing you, to a few little prosody flaws: now that we give (and we're right) such great importance to declamation in music, and that we never sacrifice prosody to it again, we must strive for it to be absolutely perfect "...