[Sketches for La baguette].

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Title
[Sketches for La baguette].
Alternative Title
Baguette
Creator
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Habladores
Halévy, Ludovic, 1834-1908
Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
Nuitter, Charles, 1828-1899
Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880
Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880. Bavards
Contributor
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de,--1547-1616--Musical settings
Offenbach, Jacques,--1819-1880
Sturm, Julius,--1816-1896
Published / Created
[1862]
Abstract

Sketches, holograph, for La baguette. A few sketches for Les bavards are also present. Holograph annotations on endpapers include names and addresses; notes about composition and rehearsals for La baguette, dated 1862 November; and transcription of a poem by Julius Sturm.

Description
Also listed in finding aid for General Collection Manuscript Music Miscellany.
Binding: contemporary calf-backed boards, by Lard-Esnault, Paris.
Contains additional blank pages, not digitized.
Jacques Offenbach, French composer.
La baguette: opera, also titled Fédia, with libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Begun in 1862; incomplete.
Les bavards: opera, with libretto by Charles Nuitter, after Cervantes's Los habladores. First performed 1862.
Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Sotheby's music sale, 2001 May 25, lot 147), on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2001.
Title devised by cataloger.
Extent
1 v. of ms. music ([circa 60] p.) ;
26 x 35 cm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Digitization Note
Contains additional blank pages, not digitized.
Language
French

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
GEN MSS MUSIC MISC Volume 49

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Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
notated music
Genre
Scores
Subject (Name)
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de,--1547-1616--Musical settings
Offenbach, Jacques,--1819-1880
Sturm, Julius,--1816-1896
Subject (Topic)
Operas

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Citation
Jacques Offenbach, Sketches for La baguette. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
9315912
Object ID (OID)
14897182

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