GAVOTY Bernard [Paris, 1908 - id., 1981], French organist an - Lot 259

GAVOTY Bernard [Paris, 1908 - id., 1981], French organist and music critic. critic. Set of 3 autograph letters signed, addressed to M. Cortot, whom he calls "Maître". - Letter, 2 pages in-4°. Cornillon par Mable, Loire ; July 22, 1945. He talks about a study he has just finished writing "Anatole France's quotation came to me wonderfully. I've just pinned it to my article, finished this very morning. It's a a little longer than I would have thought at first - about twenty-five pages. about twenty-five pages". - Autograph letter signed, 6 pages in-8°; December 31 1947 addressed to his Master. He explains that it took him a long time to write because of a number of unforeseen circumstances, including his wife's had to undergo a medical operation as a result of a gynecologist's gynecologist during the birth of their daughter Marie-Ange. "You do me the honor and pleasure of asking me my feelings about publishing your "Aspect de Chopin". "Didn't you have the option of Sabatier, i.e. Albin Michel? I'm afraid of Plon; I know Directeur Belperron, who's an opaque moron opaque moron with a lousy temper". - January 6, 1943, 2 pages in-4° on headed paper. He wishes to to write an article about his friend Cortot. "As I wish to fix an image of you that is both the most and the least pretentious, for it is difficult to evoke the fullness that you are - I would like, instead of piling on epithets instead of piling on epithets whose banality would overwhelm the readers, I would like to give you a series of concrete images images of you, showing you in the succession of your multiple in a word, to bring to life a "day in the life of Alfred Cortot day" that avoids the twin pitfalls of philosophical analysis and journalism".