UPROAR IN PARIS
N a heated Paris row over Gounod’s opera Faust, a lawsuit has just been averted, and al] because of an English singer who has been forgotten for nearly 90 years. When the orchestra of Radiodiffusion Francaise recorded and broadcast the complete score, the composer’s grandson was delighted-until the middle of the second act. The orchestra was playing an aria, "Invocation of Valentin," which he declared was not in the original score. It must be a forgery. Faced with the threat of a lawsuit, the publisher stopped sales of, the new records and referred the dispute to the Academy of Fine Arts, of which Gounod had been a member for 27 years. Handwritifig experts, called to examine the manuscript, decided that the aria was in the composer’s writing, but had been added later. Finally a letter was discovered which showed that when the opera was taken to London in 1864, Charles Fantley complained that he had a very small part and asked Gounod to give him a better chance to display a
talent which has gone unrecorded. The disputed aria was the result.
J. W.
Goodwin
(London)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 18
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189UPROAR IN PARIS New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 18
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