Offenbach Jacques

1895 · réf. 29089 — Paris: Maquet B. et Cie. 12614 1895. 1f. recto title with first performance information named cast list and contents within decorative border verso copyright 1f. blank 56 pp. Named cast includes Berthelier Darcier and Schneide. Printed from Brandus plates. Browned. First performed to a libretto by Mestépès and Chevalet in Paris at the Bouffes-Parisiens Salle Marigny on 31 August 1955. Bound with: Planquette Robert 1848-1903. Les Chevau-Légers Opérette en un acte. Piano-vocal score Paris: Ch. Egrot PN Ch. E. 1009 ca. 1881.1f. recto notes on first performance named cast list and contents verso blank 118 pp. Lithographed. Named cast includes Perrin Gaillard Antony Villé Chretienno d'Estrées Mazedier Briot Liovent Boulard and Lucy. Lacking title. First Edition. First performed in Paris at the Eldorado on 1December 1881. Large octavo. Quarter dark brown cloth with marbled boards spine in gilt-ruled compartments titling gilt. Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped; annotation in blue crayon to upper margin of free front endpaper. Rectangular publisher's handstamp to lower margin of free front endpaper title and following blank leaf; minor to moderate foxing; occasional browning; former owner's signature to lower margin of title; free rear endpaper torn and mostly lacking. "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. Maquet [B. et Cie. 12614] unknown