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SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE: (1835-1921) French composer of the Romantic era. A.L.S., with his initials C. St. S., one page, 4to, n.p., 19th September 1917, to a friend, in French. The composer makes an enquiry of his correspondent, in full, 'Les Amoureux de Catherine commencent-ils, ou finissent-ils la matinee? Je voudrais aller les entendre demain, sans etre oblige de subir Mme. Butterfly. Rep.S.V.P.' (Translation: 'Does Les Amoureux de Catherine begin or end in the morning? I would like to go and hear it tomorrow, without having to suffer Mme. Butterfly. R.S.V.P.'). In a postscript Saint-Saens remarks that he returned on Sunday evening from the countryside, where he had been for a fortnight. Some light creasing, a few minor spots of foxing and a few neat tears to the edges, G
Les Amoureux de Catherine, an opera comique in one act, was the first opera composed by Henri Marechal (1842-1924) and Madama Butterfly is, of course, Giacomo Puccini's opera which had premiered in 1904.
