Vocal score, holograph, with corrections by Messager and printer's annotations for publication by Editions Salabert. Sections are numbered and paged separately; number twelve is not present. Accompanied by two documents identifying the score as Messager's holograph, signed by his granddaughter Jacqueline Dumore-Messager, 1971 May 23 and undated
Alternative Title:
Coups de roulis. Vocal score
Description:
Operetta with a libretto by Albert Willemetz, based on a novel by Maurice Larrouy. A vocal score was published by Editions Salabert (Paris, 1928). and Pl. no.: E.A.S.4583 (manuscript printer's annotation).
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Larrouy, Maurice, 1882-1939, Messager, André, 1853-1929., and Editions Salabert.
Score and part, holograph, with dedication to Adeline Palianti
Description:
Jules Massenet, French composer., Song, with words by Victor Hugo., Staff notation., Vocal text in French., Title from cover., Date of creation supplied by cataloger., and Voice part includes text for all verses.
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912. and Palianti, Adeline.
Engraved proof (Paris: Durand, 1912), signed and annotated in Russian by Waslaw Nijinsky. With signed inscription by Serge Lifar on cover: "Partition de Waslaw Nijinsky avec les notations de Diaghilev, de Nijinsky de Debussy de Bakst."
Alternative Title:
Jeux; arranged
Description:
Claude Debussy, French composer., Ballet, with libretto by Waslaw Nijinsky. Composed 1912-1913; first performed 1913; published 1912 (piano score), 1914 (full score)., a Available on microfilm, Cover title., Publisher's stamp on cover., and T.p. and p. 1-2 lacking.
Vocal score, holograph, corrected, of Meyerbeer's first version of the opera, "terminé le 6 Novembre 1843".
Alternative Title:
Africaine. Vocal score
Description:
Meyerbeer began work on the opera, on a libretto by Eugène Scribe, in 1837. He completed a first version in 1843, and continued to revise the work until 1863. After Meyerbeer's death in 1864, François-Joseph Fétis made further revisions, and the opera was premiered at the Paris Opéra on April 28, 1865., Available on microfilm, and Title from cover.
Score, holograph, dated 1862 Aug 25 (Le fleur) and Aug 26 (Le crucifix). A fragment of Guitare, song, with text by Auguste, comte de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, dated [1862] Aug 23, is on the recto of the first page
Description:
Jules Massenet, French composer. and Fleur et le papillon: song, with text by Victor Hugo. Composed 1862. Crucifix: song, with text by Alphonse de Lamartine. Composed 1862.
Organ part, holograph, with blank staves for voices, signed by Gounod on cover and initialed by him on several pages. The cover is annotated in an unidentified hand: "Propriété de la paroisse de St. François-Xavier, maître de chapelle Joseph Franck".
Alternative Title:
Masses, A♭ major
Description:
The composer Charles Gounod was appointed maître de chapelle at the Séminaire des Missions Etrangères, Paris, in 1843., Jean-Hubert-Joseph Franck, violinist, composer, and organist; younger brother of César Franck; succeeded Gounod as organist at the Séminaire des Missions Etrangères., and Title from cover.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Franck, Jean-Hubert-Joseph, 1825-1891. and Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893.
Score, holograph, with printer's markings, dated at Monte Carlo and inscribed to Marie Kohn. Bound with a copy of the printed score published by Huegel (Paris, 1910), signed
Description:
Jules Massenet, French composer., Song, with text by Mathylde Peyre. Published 1910., Title from caption., and Plate no.: H. & Cie 24,934 (manuscript printer's annotation and on printed score).
Additional scene for act 3, composed for the 1909 revision, holograph, with printer's markings. Accompanied by a blank sheet of score paper with notes identifying the manuscript, numbered "308" on verso
Description:
Jules Massenet, French composer., Opera, with text by Henri Cain and Arthur Bernède, after Alphonse Daudet. First performed 1897 (first version), 1909 (revision); published 1898? (vocal score), 1909? (full score)., Available on microfilm, Title from cover., and Pl. no.: H. & Cie. 18.814 (manuscript printer's marking).
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897, Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912., and Heugel (Firm)
Score of Satie's nine scènes nouvelles, holograph, with corrections by Satie and brief annotations written by dancer Serge Lifar and in unidentified hands. Appended are a transposition of Gounod's quintet from act three, written in holograph by Georges Auric, and a vocal score of the final octet, written in an unidentified hand, possibly that of Edouard Flament. Laid in are a text of the quintet, typescript, and an excerpt in vocal score showing the transition to the final scene, written in holograph by Satie
Description:
Charles Gounod's opéra-comique Le médecin malgré lui, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Molière's play, was first performed in 1858. For a revival at the Festival Français in Monte Carlo, Serge Diaghilev commissioned recitatives by Satie to replace original spoken dialogue. A final vocal octet was adapted by Georges Auric from Gounod's quintet in act three. Le médecin malgré lui, with nine "scènes nouvelles" by Satie and the final scene by Auric, was conducted by Edouard Flament at the Casino Theater, Monte Carlo, on January 5, 1924., Available on microfilm, Staff notation., Vocal text in French., Title devised by cataloger., Date of creation supplied by cataloger., and "Médecin malgré lui: opéra comique de Gounod" -- caption title, written in an unidentified hand.