{"id":7953,"date":"2021-06-24T15:46:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T19:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esm4.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/?page_id=7953"},"modified":"2021-06-24T15:46:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T19:46:48","slug":"la-mer1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esm4.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/la-mer1\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude Debussy, La Mer<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sibley librarian Barbara Duncan purchased the manuscript for the sum of 30,000 francs from Parisian dealer Robert Legouix, whom Miss Duncan met at auction in Berlin in June 1929. The auction was the occasion of sale, by the firms of Martin Breslauer and Leo Piepmannssohn, of the personal library of German music collector and critic Dr. Werner Wolffheim (1877\u20131930), whose personal collection ranked as one of the most illustrious private collections of the day. (It was at that same auction that Miss Duncan acquired what would become yet another Sibley treasure, the so-called \u201cRochester\u201d Codex.) Miss Duncan briefly described the circumstance in a letter (June 6th<\/sup>, 1929) to University of Rochester University Librarian Donald Gilchrist, sent from Berlin:<\/p>\n

The dealers of course are all trying to sell me all sorts of things and are being so nice to me! But don\u2019t worry I shan\u2019t lose my head and they can\u2019t sell me any thing I don\u2019t want! Another thing to talk about I have bought of Legouix (that is I told him he must first have a letter from you confirming my order) that is a real treasure. The autograph of the first draft of Debussy\u2019s \u201cLa Mer\u201d his most important orchestral work after the \u201cthree nocturnes\u201d which Carl Engel bought a few years ago. It is a beautiful mss. of twenty odd folio pages signed in full and dated at the end. Debussy is an outstanding figure in music (there is no doubt of that) he is an innovator and his manuscripts are most valuable. Legouix is selling this score and another of his for the heirs. The price is 1200 dollars (I have forgotten the francs).<\/p>\n

\u2026 Good Heavens, the Frenchman [sic] is suspicious and nervous! Everything had to be in writing. Perhaps because he was a prisoner in Germany for over three years during the war is one reason why he is so sensitive. \u2026 Because he was so edgey [sic] I thought he had better have some connection with you so that if the bill should be delayed he would be able to write directly to you.<\/p>\n

Since then, the manuscript has been the treasured showpiece of the Sibley Music Library\u2019s holdings\u2014truly the jewel in the Sibley crown.<\/p>\n

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