Henri DUPARC (1848-1933). L.A.S., November 23, 1900, [to Rhené-Baton?]; 2 pages in-8. About a melody on Baudelaire's poem La Mort des amants (in addition to Debussy in 1890, the poem was set to music by Rhené-Baton in 1900, Gustave Charpentier in 1895, Gaston Serpette around 1897). "You are very kind to have remembered the good promise you made me to give me your charming Mort des Amants [...] I have just reread these few pages, which I thought I knew very little about, for I was terribly tired the day you played them to me, and I had the pleasure of recognizing every note, every accent. That's how much I was struck by it: the return of time after the hectic passage is perhaps what I like best: it's really very penetrating. If you'll allow me, I'll draw your attention, when I have the pleasure of seeing you, to a few minor prosody flaws: now that declamation is given such great importance in music (and rightly so), and that prosody is never sacrificed to it, we must strive to make it absolutely perfect"...