NIEUWENHOVE, Armand Marie Ghislain Limnander de 1814-1892

Les Monténégrins, Opéra-Comique en 3 actes, Paroles de MM. Alboize et Gerard ...Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique ... Partition Piano et Chant Prix 12 f. net. [Piano-vocal score].

Paris: Au Ménestrel, Heugel et Cie. [PN J. M. 2702], [ca. 1850].

Large octavo. Full black cloth, marbled endpapers. 1f. (recto title within decorative border, verso blank), 1f. (recto named cast list and contents, verso blank), 232 pp. Engraved.

Named cast includes Hermann-Léon, Bellecourt, Bauche, Sainte-Foy, Nathan, Ugalde, and Lemercier.

Binding worn, bumped, faded, and stained; minor damage to head of spine; hinges split. Some signatures partially split; publisher's handstamps to title and first page of music.

First Edition.

Nieuwenhove was a Belgian composer. "In 1845, prompted by the desire to work for the stage, he left for Paris. The following year he performed at the chateau des Tuileries, in the presence of King Louis Philippe I, three choir excerpts from his Scènes druidiques with orchestral accompaniment under the direction of Daniel Auber. In 1847 Limnander decided to settle in the French capital, where his dramas and lyrical operas such as The Montenegrins (1848), by librettists Gérard de Nerval and Jules-Édouard Alboize de Pujol, which premiered there on 31 March the following year, was very well received along with his Le Château de la Barbe-Bleue (1851)." Wikipedia.

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Price: $75.00  other currencies