Italian-born composer and opera director (1771–1839) who was one of the first teachers of the young Franz Liszt. ALS in Italian, signed “your most devoted and attentive servant Paer,” one page both sides, Director of the Chamber Music of the Emperor of the Italian Opera Theaters letterhead, August 14, 1813. (Letter to Miss Morandi translated in part): “I have obtained two thousand extra francs in the contract that I sent you with one half from Rinaldi.-That sum then counts toward the Court concerts (which, to tell you in confidence, when the Emperor is in Paris, nobody gets excited about). Here it is then with the pay of twenty-six thousand francs per year. With the contract over two years, etc. etc. etc… Your Lady's esteem is guaranteed for these two thousand francs so that you can count on it as a pact and condition of a legal contract and not put us through another back and forth. I am also writing to Sign. Rinaldi to [ask] him to send you the [said] contract without saying a word to anybody about the two thousand francs that the administration authorizes me to add.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, uniform toning, scattered creases, and some light show-through from writing on reverse. RRAuction COA.
