ABBEVILLE (Somme) - Albert LAURENT (La Bassée... Lot 30

ABBEVILLE (Somme) - Albert LAURENT (La Bassée 1885-1978, composer, directed the Abbeville Conservatory) / Correspondence of 14 signed autograph letters totaling 19 p in-4 and 9 p in-8, from Abbeville, 1927-1930, to Gaston Gérardot de Sermoise (1894-1932, poet, hero of 14-18): These deal with the Soirées poétiques at the Maison de Balzac, organized by Gérardot, the poet Fernand Mazade (whose disciple Gérardot was), an adaptation and setting to music of Laurent's "Ardent Voyage", and more.