OFFENBACH, Jacques 1819-1880

Tromb-Al-Ca-Zar ou les Criminels Dramatiques ... Bouffonnerie musicale en un acte, Paroles de MM. Dupeuty et Bourget ... Répertoire des Bouffes Parisiens. Partition Piano et Chant. [Piano-vocal score]

Paris: G. Brandus, Dufour et Cie. [PN B. et Cie. 9659], [1856].

Large octavo. Quarter dark blue calf with marbled boards, spine with gilt-ruled compartments and titling gilt. 1f. (recto title within decorative borders, verso blank), 1f. (recto contents, verso blank), 0 pp. Engraved.

Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped; armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Minor foxing; small oval bookseller's and publisher's facsimile signature handstamp to lower margin of title.

First Edition, first issue.

Trombalcazar, ou Les criminels dramatiques, to a libretto by Dupeuty and Bourget), was first performed in Paris at the Bouffes-Parisien on 3 April 1856.

"[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.

Item #28871

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