Score, holograph. Dated at end, 1851 June 8, Mont-Chartrain.
Description:
Also listed in finding aid for General Collection Manuscript Music Miscellany., Bound by a former owner., Jacques Offenbach, French composer., Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Sotheby's music sale, 2001 May 25, lot 146), on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2001., Set of waltzes for orchestra. Composed 1851., and Title from caption, written in an unidentified hand.
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