MASSENET Jules (1842-1912)

AUTOGRAPHIC MUSICAL MANUSCRIPT, Brumaire (Overture for Édouard Noël's drama), 1899; title and 33 pages in-fol. mounted on tabs and bound in one volume of red half-maroquin with corners (spine a bit rubbed). Complete manuscript of this overture transcribed for piano 4 hands. Édouard NOËL (1850-1926) published in 1899 a Brumaire, Scènes historiques de l'an VIII. Written in black ink on Lard-Esnault paper (Ed. Bellamy successor) at 20 lines, the manuscript was used for the engraving. It is marked at the head: "Très animé. Violent", and is dated at the end: "Égreville Saturday, Sept. 2. 99. 6 h. du matin". There are many scratches, and a 5 bar collet on page 27. Page 13 is numbered 12 bis. The title page bears the dedication "to my friend P.E. Chevalier" (nephew and associate of Henri Heugel). PROVENANCE Heugel family archives and memorabilia (May 26, 2011, No. 112). DISCOGRAPHY Royal Scottish National Orchestra, dir. Jean-Luc Tingaud (Naxos, 2020).