{"id":3173,"date":"2021-07-19T15:16:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T19:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2021-07-20T11:52:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T15:52:09","slug":"happy-200th-birthday-pauline-viardot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/2021\/07\/19\/happy-200th-birthday-pauline-viardot\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 200th Birthday, Pauline Viardot!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In celebration of Pauline Viardot\u2019s 200th birthday on July 18th, we are sharing three music manuscripts held in Harvard\u2019s collection. The music, L’hirondelle et le prisonnier (The Swallow and the Prisoner)<\/a>, was first published in 1841 in Paris by Bureaux de La France musicale,<\/i> as advertised in the contents pages from the January 3rd issue<\/a> of this publication. The text was adapted from the poem by Hector-Gr\u00e9goire de Saint-Maur (first published anonymously in the Gazette de Sainte-P\u00e9lagie<\/i> in 1834).<\/p>\n

\"Newspaper<\/a>

Paris: Bureaux de La France musicale, 3 January 1841.<\/p><\/div>\n

Before jumping into the manuscript, let\u2019s take a look at an early publication <\/a>of this work digitized by Hathi Trust Digital Library.<\/p>\n

\"First<\/a>

First page of L\u2019Hirondelle et le prisonnier, published by Bureaux de La France musicale.<\/p><\/div>\n

Our first example is a manuscript held in the Pauline Viardot-Garcia papers<\/a> held at the Houghton Library, and is contained in a notebook owned by Pauline, along with 22 other songs.<\/p>\n

\"Oblong<\/a>

L’hirondelle et le prisonnier. Pauline Viardot-Garcia papers, MS Mus 232 (60) no. 10. Houghton Library, Harvard University.<\/p><\/div>\n

The next example is a manuscript also in the Houghton Library as part of the Pauline Viardot-Garc\u00eda Additional Papers<\/a>. This edition is part of a Collection of Songs, Autograph Manuscripts and Manuscript Scores containing incipits of works.<\/p>\n

\"Oblong<\/a>

Pauline Viardot-Garc\u00eda additional papers, MS Mus 264 (97). Houghton Library, Harvard University.<\/p><\/div>\n

Our final manuscript is signed and dated Paris, March 18, 1842. It is part of a collection of autographs compiled by Jenny V\u00e9ny<\/a>, daughter of oboist Louis-Auguste V\u00e9ny. The album contains 75 autographs and 120 leaves of music.<\/p>\n

In March of 1842, Pauline was three months shy of her 21st birthday. She married Louis Viardot two years prior, and made friendships with Fredrick Chopin and author George Sands, but had not yet met her lifelong friend Ivan Turgenev.\u00a0 According to The Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia<\/i><\/a>, <\/i>in March of 1842 the Viardots were visiting family (her sister\u2019s widow) in Brussels at Ixelles to show off their new baby, returning to Paris in April.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>

Autograph Album: Manuscript, 1841-1880. MS Mus 103. Houghton Library, Harvard University.<\/p><\/div>\n

For more information on this work, see page 5-6 of Sarah Christine Ballman’s 2021 doctoral dissertation, A Catalog of M\u00e9lodies Composed by Pauline Viardot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In celebration of Pauline Viardot\u2019s 200th birthday on July 18th, we are sharing three music manuscripts held in Harvard\u2019s collection. The music, L’hirondelle et le prisonnier (The Swallow and the Prisoner), was first published in 1841 in Paris by Bureaux de La France musicale, as advertised in the contents pages from the January 3rd issue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[149767,13829],"tags":[122899,14789,40316,19719],"class_list":["post-3173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archival-collections","category-digital-collections","tag-manuscripts","tag-scores","tag-songs","tag-women-composers","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6lSEF-Pb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3192,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}