Vocal score, holograph, with corrections by Messager and printer's annotations for publication by Editions Salabert. Sections are numbered and paged separately; number twelve is not present. Accompanied by two documents identifying the score as Mess...
Alternative Title:
Coups de roulis. Vocal score
Description:
Operetta with a libretto by Albert Willemetz, based on a novel by Maurice Larrouy. A vocal score was published by Editions Salabert (Paris, 1928).
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Larrouy, Maurice, 1882-1939, Messager, André, 1853-1929., and Editions Salabert.
"Portrait of Joseph Haydn, half-length, facing front, seated on a chair, writing a music score on a table, holding a quill pen in his right hand; after A. M. Ott; fourth state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. as the act directs April 4, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Song, copyist's manuscript, corrected in holograph and signed by Puccini. Appended is an ALS from Puccini to Carlo Abeniacar, [1897 Dec 13], presenting the score and discussing Puccini's interest in hunting
Description:
Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Name):
Abeniacar, Carlo. and Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.
Subject (Topic):
Composers, Hunting songs, and Songs (High voice) with piano
Engraved proof (Paris: Durand, 1912), signed and annotated in Russian by Waslaw Nijinsky. With signed inscription by Serge Lifar on cover: "Partition de Waslaw Nijinsky avec les notations de Diaghilev, de Nijinsky de Debussy de Bakst."
Vocal score, holograph, corrected, of Meyerbeer's first version of the opera, "terminé le 6 Novembre 1843".
Alternative Title:
Africaine. Vocal score
Description:
Meyerbeer began work on the opera, on a libretto by Eugène Scribe, in 1837. He completed a first version in 1843, and continued to revise the work until 1863. After Meyerbeer's death in 1864, François-Joseph Fétis made further revisions, and the ...
Score, holograph, dated 1862 Aug 25 (Le fleur) and Aug 26 (Le crucifix). A fragment of Guitare, song, with text by Auguste, comte de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, dated [1862] Aug 23, is on the recto of the first page
Organ part, holograph, with blank staves for voices, signed by Gounod on cover and initialed by him on several pages. The cover is annotated in an unidentified hand: "Propriété de la paroisse de St. François-Xavier, maître de chapelle Joseph Fran...
Alternative Title:
Masses, A♭ major
Description:
The composer Charles Gounod was appointed maître de chapelle at the Séminaire des Missions Etrangères, Paris, in 1843.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Franck, Jean-Hubert-Joseph, 1825-1891. and Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893.
Additional scene for act 3, composed for the 1909 revision, holograph, with printer's markings. Accompanied by a blank sheet of score paper with notes identifying the manuscript, numbered "308" on verso
Description:
Jules Massenet, French composer.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897, Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912., and Heugel (Firm)
Score of Satie's nine scènes nouvelles, holograph, with corrections by Satie and brief annotations written by dancer Serge Lifar and in unidentified hands. Appended are a transposition of Gounod's quintet from act three, written in holograph by Geor...
Description:
Charles Gounod's opéra-comique Le médecin malgré lui, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Molière's play, was first performed in 1858. For a revival at the Festival Français in Monte Carlo, Serge Diaghilev commissioned r...
