OFFENBACH, Jacques 1819-1880

Hoffmanns Erzählungen Oper in 3 Akten, einem Vor- und einem Nachspiel ... Klavierauszug mit Text neu revidiert von Gustav F. Kogel. [Piano-vocal score]

Paris: Choudens [PN 9476], [1914].

Large octavo. Original publisher's light pink wrappers. 1f. (recto title within decorative border by F. Baumgarten), 3-4 (introduction), 5 (recto cast list, notes on first performance, and named cast list, verso contents), 7-286 pp. Text in German only.

Named cast includes A. Isaac, M. Ugalde, Dupuis, Talazac, Taskin, Gourdon, Belhomme, Troy, Chenevières, Grivot, and Teste.

Wrappers slightly worn; upper partially detached; spine creased and with small tears. Some signatures split.

Les contes d’Hoffmann, to a libretto by Barbier completed by Guiraud, was first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique on 10 February 1881.

"[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 ... His opera Les contes d’Hoffmann has retained a place in the international repertory ... 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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