DEBUSSY CLAUDE: (1862-1918) French composer. A rare and very unusual signed and inscribed score ...

DEBUSSY CLAUDE: (1862-1918) French composer. A rare and very unusual signed and inscribed score page, `Cl. Debussy´, one page, 4to, to a bifolium score page, n.p., n.d., to his second wife Emma Bardac Moyse, in French. The score music page, bearing to the bottom corner the blind embossed seal of H. Lard-Esnault Ed. Bellamy, is the front page cover of Debussy´s "Sonate pour Flûte, Alto et Harpe" ("Sonata for Flute, Alto and Harp") composed in 1915. The French composer annotates in his usual extremely small writing `La deuxième sonate pour: Flute, Alto et Harpe´ (Translation: "The second sonata for Flute, Alto and Harp") and dedicates it in a funny and close way to his wife, stating below `pour la collection particulière de ma P.[etite] m.[ienne], son maitre de chapelle: Cl. Debussy´ (Translation: "for the private collection of my L.[ittle] M.[ine], from his master of chapel. Cl. Debussy") With blank integral score music leaf. VG

Debussy married in 1905 his second spouse Emma Bardac Moyse to whom he inscribes the present score front page. The marriage to his first wife Rosalie Texier, known as Lilly, whom he married in 1899 after threatening suicide if she refused him, lasted only five years after Debussy became increasingly irritated by her intellectual limitations and lack of musical sensitivity. Lilly tried to commit suicide shooting herself on her chest although survived. His second wife Emma Bardac Moyse, whom he called "ma Petite Mienne" ("my little mine") had been married to a Sigismond Bardac, a financier, and later became the mistress of French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) with whom she had a daughter, Dolly Bardac. Fauré dedicated several works to Emma and Dolly Bardac.