[Debussy, Claude. (1862-1918)] Debussy, Emma Bardac. (1862 - 1934)

Autograph Letter

Autograph letter to the conductor Georges Truc, ca. 1928, in which the wife of the composer proposes that Truc come hear the melodies by her husband in a performance by Magdeleine Greslé and Roger Ducasse, and recalls a 'Pelléas et Mélisande" with Armand Narcon and Marie-Thérèse Gaulay. 2 pp. (recto/verso), signed "Emma Claude Debussy."


The singer Emma Bardac, née Moyse, was the mutual love interest of both Gabriel Fauré and Claude Debussy. After her earlier affair with Fauré, she married Debussy in 1908 and by him had their daughter, Claude-Emma (the dedicatee of the 1909 "Children's Corner Suite") in 1905. Claude-Emma died of diphtheria in 1919, the year after her father's death and Emma Bardac died in 1934. They are both laid to rest in Debussy's grave in the Cimetière de Passy in Paris. (10811)
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