1 autograph letter signed and 1 letter signed.
8vo. Together 2 pp. on bifolia.
€ 180.00
Both to the conductor Walther Straram concerning his engagement as choirmaster and conductor at the Opéra-Comique. In the letter from 13 June 1908, Carré lays out the conditions of the ten-month engagement starting September. The second letter from 29 May 1909 was to remind Straram of the expiration of the contract at the end of the season. The earlier letter is written in Carré's own hand.
Carré had been a successful actor before becoming the director of the theâtre du Vaudeville in Paris in 1885. In 1898 he was appointed director of the Opéra-Comique, a position he would hold until 1914 and again from 1919 to 1925.
After conducting at the Paris Opéra and the Opéra-Comique, Walther Straram (1876-1933) founded his own Orchestre des Concerts Straram in 1925. The ensemble that emphasized contemporary music was considered to be among the best French orchestras at the time. Straram premiered Honegger's Prélude à la tempête, Ravel's Boléro, and Messiaen's Les Offrandes oubliées. In 1929 Stranvinsky conducted the orchestra for the first recording of Le Sacre du printemps.
Both on stationery with lithographed letterhead of the director of the Opéra-Comique. Traces of folds.
