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.
Alternative Title:
Baguette
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., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de,--1547-1616--Musical settings, Offenbach, Jacques,--1819-1880, and Sturm, Julius,--1816-1896
Score, manuscript, with dedication signed and dated at Brest, 1805 22 frimaire (December 13).
Alternative Title:
Sonate pour le piano avec accompagnement de violon / composee et dediee a Mademoiselle Roullet par J. F. St. Amans
Description:
Also listed in finding aid for General Collection Manuscript Music Miscellany., Louis Saint-Amans, French composer., and Pages numbered 67-76 (rectos) and 1-13 (versos).
Subject (Name):
Saint-Amans, Louis, 1749-1820
Subject (Topic):
Music --19th century and Sonatas (Violin and piano)--Scores
Title supplied by cataloger., A peep show consisting of five engraved leaves, card-backed, hand-colored and cut away., Three-dimensional scene depicting a sugar plantation (probably on Saint-Domingue) with slaves at work and several overseerers; engraved by Martin Engelbrecht?, and First leaf numbered: 1.
BEIN 2010 1626: Stamps with ms. numbers on versos of leaves., Title supplied by cataloger., A peep show consisting of six engraved leaves, card-backed, hand-colored and cut away., Background leaf numbered: 6. Printed at bottom of leaf 6: C.P. Maj. C. M. Eng. exc. A.V., An adaptation of a Bernard Picart illustration for Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, published in Amsterdam in 1723., Depicts a three-dimensional synagogue scene including the consecration of the synagogue and the reading of the Torah., and Synagogue depicted is the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam.