LECOCQ, Charles 1832-1918

Ruse d'amour Saynête en vers de Stéphan Bordèse ... Supplément musical de L'Illustration Numéro de Noël 1897-98 ... Partition pour Chant et Piano. [Piano-vocal score].

Paris: L'Illustration, 1897.

Small folio. Original publisher's dark ivory wrappers illustrated by Léon Comerre printed in black and red. [1] (title), [2] (advertisment), [3]-30, [i] (publisher's advertisement), [iii] (advertisement] pp. With cast list and contents to verso of upper and advertisement to verso of lower wrapper.

Wrappers slightly worn; several small tears; small handstamp to inner margin of upper crossed out in black marker.

First Edition.

Ruse d’amour, to a libretto by Bordèse, was first performed in Boulogne at the Casino on 16 June 1898.

"Much of Lecocq’s music is characterized by a light touch, but he could also adopt a more lyrical and elevated style than Offenbach and termed several of his operettas opéras comiques. His greatest popular triumph, La fille de Madame Angot, has remained a classic among operettas, and demonstrates Lecocq’s abundant flow of pleasing melodies, his deft exploitation of rhythm for a lively theatrical effect, impressive building up of extended numbers, and typically French shaping of phrases." Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online.

Item #28426

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