{"product_id":"25797-saint-saens-camille-hugo-victor-colonne-edouard-juda-la-lyre-et-la-harpe-inscribed-presentation-copy-to-edouard-colonne","title":"Saint-Saëns, Camille. (1835-1921) [Hugo, Victor. (1802–1885)] [Colonne, Édouard Juda. (1838 - 1910)] \"La Lyre et La Harpe\"  - Inscribed Presentation Copy to Édouard Colonne","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Lyre et La Harpe. (The Lyre and the Harp). Ode. Poésie de Victor Hugo. English Words of M.M. Sydney M. Samuel and James Donzel. Soli, Choeur \u0026amp; Orchestre. Partition Chant \u0026amp; Piano. \u003c\/em\u003ePiano-vocal score of the second version of the opera. 8vo. Title; Index; 1-117 pp. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e[PN] D\u0026amp;C. 2592. Boldly inscribed and signed on the half title page, \"à monsieur Ed. Colonne \/ Souvenir affectueux \/ C. Saint-Saens.\" Original printed wrappers with ownership stamp of Colonne (also to head of first page of music) bound into fine contemporary binding, three quarter red leather over marbled boards, five raised bands with gilt name and title. Scattered light foxing, overall fine. A very special copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe French conductor and violinist Edouard Colonne was a proponent of the music of eminent 19th-century composers, important champion of Berlioz, Wagner, Mahler and Saint-Saens, founder of the famous \"Concerts Colonne\" and introducer of the descriptive note into program booklets! \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In a marvelous ode, \u003cem\u003eLa Lyre et la Harpe\u003c\/em\u003e, Victor Hugo has brought Paganism and Christianity face to face; each speaks in its turn, and the poet, in the last stanza, appears to acknowledge that they are both right.” In these few words, Saint-Saëns encapsulates both the gist of Hugo’s poem and the  driving force of his own piece: a dialogue in twelve stanzas alternating between the secular lyre and the Christian harp gives rise to a strongly contrasting duel between the representative of sensual, pagan pleasures, and that of the Christian ideal, of God’s power and love. This antithesis, which is even more pronounced than that inspired by Hugo’s lines, pervades all the musical components (melody, harmony and instrumentation) placed alternately by Saint-Saëns at the disposal of the lyre or the harp. Dedicated to Henri Reber, the composer and Saint-Saëns’ friend, this cantata was premiered on 28 August 1879, in England, at the Birmingham Festival, where Saint-Saëns himself conducted an enormous choir and orchestra numbering over five hundred performers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62775902732447,"sku":"25797","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Hugo25797c.jpg?v=1776543259","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/25797-saint-saens-camille-hugo-victor-colonne-edouard-juda-la-lyre-et-la-harpe-inscribed-presentation-copy-to-edouard-colonne","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}