OFFENBACH, Jacques 1819-1880

Pariser Leben La Vie Parisienne Buffo-Oper in fünf Akten von Henri Meilhac und Ludovic Halévy Deutscher Text von Karl Treumann Klavierauszug mit deutsch-französischem Text (original). [Piano-vocal score]

Berlin: Bote & Bock [ PN B & B 15516 (531)], [ca. 1970].

Folio. Original publisher's light gray printed wrappers. 1f. (recto title, verso copyright statement), 1f. (recto cast list and orchestration, verso contents), 230 pp. Text in German and French.

Second version.

La vie parisienne, to a libretto by Meilhac and Halévy, was first performed in Paris at the Palais-Royal on October 31, 1866.

"[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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