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Lot 9: Music - Ernest Bloch

Est: €500 EUR - €1,000 EURPassed
Aste BolaffiTurin, ItalyDecember 04, 2009

Item Overview

Description

Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) A signed autograph letter by the violinist and composer addressed to Paola Ojetti in which Bloch tells about the sad "mesi di angoscia" he has gone through, written from the place in Canton Ticino where he lived from 1930-1933 (and where he composed Avodath Hakodesh), Roveredo - Capriasca Ticino Le 9 Juillet 1932. "Les mois ont passé...des mois de détresse, physique et morale, des soucis, des complications de tout genre, des catastrophes, des angoisses effroyables...l'écroulement puisque total de 30 années d'éspoùs, d'effort, de volonté tendre matériellement et spirituellement...J'ai veçu dans des tenebres où je me suis débattu désespérément...C'est peut être pour cela que j'ai gardé le silence (...) Après tout, ce n'est pas à nous de juger la Destinée, ni ce qu'elle nous impose- Nous ne sauvons pas. Notre effort, alors tout l'Univers nous semble noir". He goes on with an interesting account of the reunion of old friends at the Festival de Musique di Zurigo. "La plupart connaissent mon nom...mais rien de moi, ni de mon aeuvre...et j'ai passé au milieu d'eux, en mon pays natal, comme un étranger, seul, isolé, absolutemente méconnu (...) Mais d'autres ont cherché à me faire comprendre que je n'existais pas comme artiste créateur, que j'étais périmé au fond! Et ils cherchaient à me pouver cela par des théories subtiles (...) Je me suis donc mis, une fois de plus à étudier - à contre-coeur ces théories sadissant nouvelles...Et je n'y découvre rien que je ne sache, si ce n'est...des sophismes!...". 4to., 4 pp.

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Auction Details

Autographs, Books & Engravings

by
Aste Bolaffi
December 04, 2009, 04:00 PM CET

via Cavour 17, Turin, Italy, 10123, IT

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