“You tell me that you’ve been sold an item of some value,” Gioachino Rossini wrote angrily to the French music publisher Antoine Aulagnier in September 1841 after a third party had sold Aulagnier the autograph score of the original version of the Italian composer’s Stabat mater and Aulagnier had written to Rossini to ask for his permission to publish it. Rossini refused, arguing that he had “merely dedicated” the work “to the Reverend Father Manuel Fernández Varela, while reserving for myself the right to publish it whenever I consider it opportune. Without entering into the sort of swindle that someone has sought to perpetrate to the detriment of my interests, I declare to you, Monsieur, that if my Stabat mater is published without my authorization, whether in France or abroad, my firm intention is to pursue the publisher and hound him to death. What is more, Monsieur, I must tell you that in the copy I sent to the Reverend Father, there are only six numbers of my own composition, a friend of mine having been invited to complete what I could not nish myself because I was seriously ill.”
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