A handsome quotation of twenty bars of Félicien David's Symphony in E-flat, in piano reduction with different instruments indicated above and on the staves. The composer has titled the quotation, inscribing and dating it underneath with a flourish.

The late 1860s marked a particularly successful period for French composer Félicien David; in 1867 he was awarded a lucrative prize from the Académie des Beaux Arts, and in 1869, the year of this quotation, he succeeded Berlioz as the librarian of the Paris Conservatoire.