OFFENBACH, Jacques 1819-1880

Belle Lurette Opéra-Comique en 3 actes de Blum, Blau et Toché ... Partition Chant et Piano transcrite par L. Roques. [Piano-vocal score]

Paris: Choudens Père & Fils [PN A.C. 5024], [ca. 1890].

Large octavo. Full red cloth, titling gilt to spine, marbled endpapers. 1f. (recto title within border by L. Denis, verso notes), 1f. (recto notes on first performance, named cast list, and contents, verso blank), 3-234 pp.

Binding slightly worn. Some browning; former owner's signature to free front endpaper dated 1936; tape reinforcement to outer edge of verso of title.

Printed from first edition plates.

Belle Lurette, to a libretto by Blum, Blau and Toché completed by Delibes, was first performed in Paris at the Renaissance on 30 October 1880.

"[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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