OFFENBACH J.Livre Rare Book
Les Deux Aveugles Bouffonnerie Musicale Paroles de J. Moinaux . Prix: 3 fr net. Piano-vocal score
1900réf. 28863Paris: C. Joubert & Cie. PN B. et Cie. 12542 1900. 1f. recto title illustrated by Buttiner-Thierry with images of guitarist and trombonist verso copyright statement 1f. notes on first performance named cast list and contents verso blank vi 22 pp. Named cast includes Pradeau and Berthelier. First performed to a libretto by Moinaux in Paris at the Bouffes-Parisiens on July 5 1855. A re-issue from Brandus plates. Bound with: Offenbach. Une Nuit Blanche Opéra comique en un acte Paroles de E. Plouvier . Répertoire des Bouffes Parisiens . Pr: 6: net. Piano-vocal score. Paris: G. Brandus Dufour et Cie. PN B. et Cie. 9579 ca. 1890. 1f. blank 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. recto named cast list and contents verso blank 56 pp. Named cast includes Darcier Berthelier and Macé. First performed to a libretto by Plouvier in Paris at the Bouffes-Parisiens Salle Marigny on July 5 1855. A re-issue of the first edition. Bound with: Offenbach. Mesdames de la Halle . Paroles de Lapointe. Piano-vocal score. Paris: Brandus & Dufour PN B. et. D. 9956 ca. 1890. 124 pp. Upper outer corner of title lacking just affecting text. First performed to a libretto by Lapointe in Paris at the Bouffes-Parisiens on March 3 1858. Large octavo. Quarter dark green leather with marbled boards spine with raised bands in decorative compartments gilt titling gilt marbled endpapers. Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped. Annotations in pencil to verso of free front endpaper. Occasional signs of wear; some browning; some signatures split; mall circular publisher's handstamps to several titles. "Offenbach was with Johann Strauss ii one of the two composers of outstanding significance in popular music of the 19th century and the composer of some of the most exhilaratingly gay and tuneful music ever written. Moreover it was through the success of Offenbach's works abroad that operetta became an established international genre producing outstanding national exponents in Strauss Sullivan and Lehár and evolving into the 20th-century musical." Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online. C. Joubert & Cie. [PN B. et Cie. 12542] unknown books
