INDY, Vincent d' 1851-1931

L'Étranger Action musicale en deux actes Poème et Musique de Vincent d'Indy Partition pour chant et piano réduite par l'Auteur. [Piano-vocal score].

Paris: A. Durand et Fils [PN D. & F. 5981], 1902.

Large octavo. Quarter black textured cloth with marbled boards, marbled endpapers. 1f. (recto blank, verso frontispiece by J.M. Sert dated 1902), 1f. (recto title, verso limitation statement), 1f. (recto cast list printed in red and black, verso notes on first performance and named cast list), 1f. (recto index, verso description of movements), 200 pp.

Named cast includes Claire Friché, Henri Albers, Henner, Rival, J. Sereno, Dalmée, Dratz-Barat, Brass, Tourjane, Colseau, Disy, Cotreuil, and Durand.

Spine lacking, reinforced with paper tape. Horizontal tear to upper margin of p. 69.

First Edition.

L'Etranger, to the composer's own libretto, was first performed in Brussels at the Théâtre de la Monnaie on January 7, 1903.

"There is much of d’Indy himself in the humanitarian and deeply religious Stranger, and he somehow managed through his consummate technique to weld L’étranger into a convincing whole, which is remarkable for its lightness of touch, rhythmic flexibility and the audibility of its text. Debussy admired it immensely and paid homage after the première ‘to the serene goodwill that hovers over this work, to its deliberate avoidance of all complication, and above all to d’Indy’s quiet determination to excel himself’." Robert Orledge in Grove Music Online.

Item #28475

Price: $90.00  other currencies