DONIZETTI GAETANO: (1797-1848) Italian Composer. A fine A.L.S.

DONIZETTI GAETANO: (1797-1848) Italian Composer. A fine A.L.S., `Gaietan Donizetti´, two pages, 4to, n.p., 22nd February, n.y. [1835], to the State counsellor Charles Amédée Jaubert, in French. A lengthy letter by Donizetti asking his correspondent to help his brother Joseph to obtain the `brevet de la Légion d´honneur décerné a ceux qui revinrent avec Napoléon de l´île d´Elbe´ ("Patent of the Legion d´honneur granted to those who returned with Napoleon from the Elba island") Donizetti kindly asks Jaubert how to get the original documents submitted for the request which were sent to him by his brother from Constantinople. Donizetti also refers to the work he is involved with, saying `Les occupations qui résultent de la mise en scene de mon opéra m´ont empêché Monsieur de vous connaitre…. Mon depart de Paris aura lieu le 5 ou 6 du mois prochain..´ ("The tasks that I am involved with because of the staging of my opera, prevented me Sir from meeting you…. My departure from Paris will take place on the 5th or 6th of next month") With address leaf in Donizetti´s hand, bearing a small red paper seal. Very small area of paper loss to the address leaf as a result of the letter opening. Small overall minor age wearand creasing, otherwise G Joseph Donizetti (1788-1856) elder brother of the composer. Joseph Donizetti was chief of the military music orchestra of the Sultan of Turkey.Donizetti refers in the present letter to the rehearsals and staging of his opera Marin Faliero (1835) which was premiered on 12th March 1835 at the Theatre Italien in Paris. In 1835 Donizetti composed two operas, Marino Faliero and Lucia di Lammermoor which was premiered six months later in Naples.