Pierre LOUŸS. Autograph manuscript, Tristan played from memory by Debussy; 1page oblong small in-4.
Souvenir of Claude Debussy, who accepted a bet to play "by heart" the three acts of Wagner's Tristan, for "one hundred francs: an enormous sum for the young musician"; this was "between 1886 and 1891".
Another manuscript is attached, a souvenir of an 1890 lunch at Jules Maciet's, with painters and curators from the Louvre, where a young girl wanted to explain the orders of architecture (2p. same paper).
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Pierre LOUŸS. Autograph manuscript, Tristan played from memory by Debussy; 1page oblong small in-4. Souvenir of Claude Debussy, who accepted a bet to play "by heart" the three acts of Wagner's Tristan, for "one hundred francs: an enormous sum for the young musician"; this was "between 1886 and 1891". Another manuscript is attached, a souvenir of an 1890 lunch at Jules Maciet's, with painters and curators from the Louvre, where a young girl wanted to explain the orders of architecture (2p. same paper).

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€300 - €400
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Not sold
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30%
Pierre LOUŸS. Autograph manuscript, Tristan played from memory by Debussy; 1page oblong small in-4. Souvenir of Claude Debussy, who accepted a bet to play "by heart" the three acts of Wagner's Tristan, for "one hundred francs: an enormous sum for the young musician"; this was "between 1886 and 1891". Another manuscript is attached, a souvenir of an 1890 lunch at Jules Maciet's, with painters and curators from the Louvre, where a young girl wanted to explain the orders of architecture (2p. same paper).
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