Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921). L.A.S. with music, Bône (Algeria) January 3, 1901; 4 pages in-8 (mourning). Beautiful letter on Mozart with musical quotations. He learns that the Mozarteum has given evenings of my works. He thanks the artists who performed them. Perhaps my worship of Mozart entitles me to some sympathy from the Mozarteum. I have given concerts expressly for his concertos to be heard; I have played them in the great concerts of Paris, London and Brussels, which pianists generally do not dare to do . He then makes musical quotations from the three Mozart concertos he has played [no. 23 K488, no. 22 K482, and no. 15 K450], indicating where he has played them, and always with great success. How desirable it would be for the Mozarteum to produce a pure edition of these wonderful concertos! Breitkopf's own edition is not; some well-intentioned hands have spoiled it. Yet it would be easy, for the author's manuscripts are very precise...