OFFENBACH, Jacques 1819-1880

Fortunio's Lied. La Chanson de Fortunio. Komishe Oper in einem Akt von Cremieux & Halévy. Deutsche Bearbeitung von Ferd. Gumbert ... Vollständiger Klavierauszug mit gesungenem und gesprochenem Text. [Piano-vocal score]

Berlin: Ed. Bote & G. Bock [PN 5000], [ca. 1900].

Large octavo. Disbound. 1f. (recto title, verso cast list and contents), 3-66 pp. Text in French and German.

Remnants of dark orange wrapper to spine. Small publisher's label to lower margin of title.

La chanson de Fortunio, to a libretto by Crémieux and Halévy, was first performed in Paris at the Bouffes-Parisiens on 5 January 1861.

[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.

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