- Emmanuel CHABRIER. L.A.S., 17 March 1893, to Édouard Colonne; 2 oblong pages in-12. [93-10] Before the first complete performance of César Franck's Béatitudes [Concerts du Châtelet, 19 March 1893, conducted by Colonne]. "You will have my orchestral score of Gwendoline on Tuesday morning at the latest. I know nothing as long as metronomic indications; nevertheless, some are necessary, and I have put in as many as I could; one can never put in too many. He asks for a place at Sunday's concert: "You must think that I am one of those who want to be ecstatic before this incomparable masterpiece by César Franck, whom I have loved and admired so much. He would also like to come to the rehearsal 'with the score p[ian]o and ch[ant], which the Master gave me, so I would hear this Bible twice'...