[Sketches for La baguette].

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Title: [Sketches for La baguette].
Alternative Title: Baguette
Creator: Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880
Contributor: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Halévy, Ludovic, 1834-1908.
Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897.
Nuitter, Charles, 1828-1899.
Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880.
Published / Created: [1862]
Abstract: 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
Description: 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.
Title devised by cataloger.
Contains additional blank pages.
Binding: contemporary calf-backed boards, by Lard-Esnault, Paris.
Provenance: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Sotheby's music sale, 2001 May 25, lot 147), on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2001.
Extent: 1 v. of ms. music ([circa 60] p.) ; 26 x 35 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Digitization Note: Contains additional blank pages, not digitized.
Language: French

Genre: Musical settings
Subject (Name): Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616
Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880.
Sturm, Julius, 1816-1896.
Subject (Topic): Operas
Subjects: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 > Musical settings
Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880
Sturm, Julius, 1816-1896
Operas

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Citation: Jacques Offenbach, Sketches for La baguette. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.