OffenbachLivre Rare Book
Un Mari à la Porte Operette en un Acte Paroles de MM. Delacour et L. Morand. Répertoire des Bouffes Parisiens. Partition Chant et Piano Prix: 5 f. net. Piano-vocal score
1900réf. 29220Paris: Ménestrel Heugel et Cie. PN H. 2447 1900. Large octavo. Original publisher's dark ivory wrappers with title within decorative border. 1f. recto title within decorative border verso blank 1f. recto notes on first performance named cast list and contents verso blank 74 pp. Named cast includes Guyot Geoffroy Tautin and Geoffroy. Annotations to cast list in pencil. Wrappers worn soiled and slightly chipped; spine with small tears and minor loss; detached; publisher's handstamp to lower margin. Browned; small circular publisher's handstamps to lower margin of title; former owner's handstamp to upper margin of second leaf. Re-issue from first edition plates. Le mari à la porte to a libretto by Delacour was first performed in Paris at the Bouffes-Parisiens on June 22 1859. "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. Ménestrel, Heugel et Cie. [PN H. 2447] unknown books
