 My dearly beloved wife!
Author: Bournonville, August Published: 2005 In 1841 the great Danish choreographer and ballet-master August Bournonville made a six-months European journey that took him to France, and, for the first time, to Italy. During this journey he kept a weekly correspondence with his wife, Helene, who had remained in Copenhagen with their six children. In these thirty-nine letters, here gathered in book form for the first time, Bournonville describes in vivid details his many personal, cultural, and theatrical encounters, with a spontaneity of expression that is conspicuously absent from his other published writings. |
