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Grove (unlike Oxford) says the libretto is by the composer or Saint-Pol-Roux but the story is pretty dubious. Can we have more details? -- Klein zach 03:01, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
I'll copy out some of it later when I have a moment, for you to judge. The amount may refer to the lump-sum Charpentier paid after the premiere to get Saint-Pol-Roux to relinquish his rights. Cg2p0B0u8m ( talk) 11:32, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
<<…In one of the early issues of L’Endehors… an article by Saint-Pol-Roux in support of Charpentier following a recent performance of Napoli by Lamoureux… Sibyllinne and celebratory, the poet [Saint-Pol-Roux] inducted the composer into the confraternity of ‘Magnifiques’… Saint-Pol-Roux’s symbolism had a real social mission…
Saint-Pol-Roux’s assistance to Charpentier extended beyond this public coronation. Charpentier had already drafted a scenario, some (and possibly all) of the libretto, and the music for the first act of Louise when he returned to Paris from his Rome sojourn in 1890…
Only Charpentier’s name appears as the librettist on all printed sources, but fuelled by the massive royalties that the opera generated, rumours soon surfaced that the poet had written large parts of the libretto… Georges de Bouhelier, who claimed to have heard Charpentier read the libretto early on, vehemently denied that Saint-Pol-Roux’s contribution extended beyond a few emendations and suggestions.
…evidence unearthed by Theophile Briant, Saint-Pol-Roux’s biographer and presented in the magazine Samedi-Soir in 1952… noted that among the poet’s papers he had found ‘about fifty pages’ which contained multiple drafts for the libretto… At some point after the spectacularly successful premier of Louise, Saint-Pol-Roux seems to have relinquished his rights to Charpentier for a lump-sum payment; that is the implication in an unpublished letter from Charpentier to an official at the Societe des Auteurs wherein the composer complains about his former friend’s continuing pressure to extract money from him
The extent of Saint-Pol-Roux’s involvement remains unclear.>> Cg2p0B0u8m ( talk) 23:16, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Someone removed the reference to 'Depuis le jour' being performed separately from the opera. This can easily be verified by a Google search. The piece has been performed and recorded by many, many artists. -- Klein zach 09:42, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
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As the French version of the article indicates, Charpentier did not write the libretto. Purslane ( talk) 00:02, 18 February 2009 (UTC) |
Last edited at 00:02, 18 February 2009 (UTC). Substituted at 22:30, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
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Grove (unlike Oxford) says the libretto is by the composer or Saint-Pol-Roux but the story is pretty dubious. Can we have more details? -- Klein zach 03:01, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
I'll copy out some of it later when I have a moment, for you to judge. The amount may refer to the lump-sum Charpentier paid after the premiere to get Saint-Pol-Roux to relinquish his rights. Cg2p0B0u8m ( talk) 11:32, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
<<…In one of the early issues of L’Endehors… an article by Saint-Pol-Roux in support of Charpentier following a recent performance of Napoli by Lamoureux… Sibyllinne and celebratory, the poet [Saint-Pol-Roux] inducted the composer into the confraternity of ‘Magnifiques’… Saint-Pol-Roux’s symbolism had a real social mission…
Saint-Pol-Roux’s assistance to Charpentier extended beyond this public coronation. Charpentier had already drafted a scenario, some (and possibly all) of the libretto, and the music for the first act of Louise when he returned to Paris from his Rome sojourn in 1890…
Only Charpentier’s name appears as the librettist on all printed sources, but fuelled by the massive royalties that the opera generated, rumours soon surfaced that the poet had written large parts of the libretto… Georges de Bouhelier, who claimed to have heard Charpentier read the libretto early on, vehemently denied that Saint-Pol-Roux’s contribution extended beyond a few emendations and suggestions.
…evidence unearthed by Theophile Briant, Saint-Pol-Roux’s biographer and presented in the magazine Samedi-Soir in 1952… noted that among the poet’s papers he had found ‘about fifty pages’ which contained multiple drafts for the libretto… At some point after the spectacularly successful premier of Louise, Saint-Pol-Roux seems to have relinquished his rights to Charpentier for a lump-sum payment; that is the implication in an unpublished letter from Charpentier to an official at the Societe des Auteurs wherein the composer complains about his former friend’s continuing pressure to extract money from him
The extent of Saint-Pol-Roux’s involvement remains unclear.>> Cg2p0B0u8m ( talk) 23:16, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Someone removed the reference to 'Depuis le jour' being performed separately from the opera. This can easily be verified by a Google search. The piece has been performed and recorded by many, many artists. -- Klein zach 09:42, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Louise (opera)/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
As the French version of the article indicates, Charpentier did not write the libretto. Purslane ( talk) 00:02, 18 February 2009 (UTC) |
Last edited at 00:02, 18 February 2009 (UTC). Substituted at 22:30, 29 April 2016 (UTC)