Black Friday Doorbuster Marsick, Martin Pierre . (1847 - 1924) Autograph Letter About His Favorite Composers Holiday Edition [XeVtbvBJ]

A rare autograph letter, penned a year before his death, from the legendary Belgian violin virtuoso. 2 pp, in French, on both sides of a small format 11 x 7 cm) rigid card. Paris, 6 ...1923. Translated in full: "Mademoiselle, I am entering convalescence after a quite long illness. Your questionnaire cannot be answered with just one word: the truly musical ears, those of professionals of music, admire all the great masters , and it's always the one then being interpreted which one most prefers. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schumann are geniuses! How could one then choose? ...One loves them all. In France, Rameau, Gounod, Saint-Saens, Lalo, and Bizet, and Berlioz are the masters...but, in the theatre, the work that I most prefer, is...Lohengrin...of Wagner. A thousand hommages of M.P. Marsick."


Marsick was one of the great touring violinists at the end of the 19th Century and taught many important violinists including Carl Flesch, Jacques Thibaud and Georges Enescu.