Serge GAINSBOURG - "Rereading your letter" - Signed autograph score.

Serge Gainsbourg (1928.1991)

Signed autograph musical manuscript – Rereading your letter. 

Three folio pages on paper with musical staffs.

[Paris. 1961]

Rereading your letter I realize that the spelling and you make two. 

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Musical manuscript titled in spectacular handwriting, on the first leaf, En relisant ta lettre… words and music by Serge Gainsbourg and bearing on the second and third leaves eleven lines of musical notes and some handwritten annotations by the artist.

By rereading your letter was submitted to SACEM on January 25, 1961. The song appears on the singer's third album, entitled L'Étonnant Serge Gainsbourg , on which we also find La Chanson de Prévert .

This title constitutes one of the most famous and cynical songs of the young Serge Gainsbourg, symbol of his first texts with misogynistic airs, of his fierce, offbeat and black humor, which introduced a new tone in French song.

This jaded seducer who rereads the pathetic letter sent to him by his conquest on the verge of suicide, coldly noting all the spelling mistakes it contains and the unflattering vision of the woman that emerges from this text will not prevent Barbara to resume it in 1969.

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Provenance: Lucien Merer (1927-2019), pianist, composer and arranger who accompanied Gainsbourg from his first steps. Merer collaborated with several other big names on the musical scene: Boby Lapointe, Jean Ferrat, Cora Vaucaire, Édith Piaf, Léo Ferré and Charles Aznavour, sometimes assisting them during their debuts or their singing tours in cabarets and concert halls. .