Roussel, Albert. (1869–1937)
Autograph Visiting Card sending New Year's Wishes
Visiting card with an autograph note from the important French composer whose students included Satie, Golestan, Roland-Manuel and Varèse. On a card printed with "Mr. & Mme. Albert Roussel," he has penned (translated from the French): "with their best wishes for the new year." Light toning; overall very fine. 3.75 x 2.25 inches (9.7 x 5.7 cm).Albert Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. His early works were strongly influenced by the impressionism of Debussy and Ravel, while he later turned toward neoclassicism. "Though he was touched by the successive waves of impressionism and neo-classicism in French music, he was an independent figure, his music harmonically spiced and rhythmically vigorous." (Nicole Labelle, Grove Online.) (15529)
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