GOUNOD, Charles 1818-1893

Cinq-Mars Opéra en Quatre Actes et Cinq Tableaux Poëme de Paul Poirson & Louis Gallet ... Partition Réduite pour Piano et Chant, par Bazille Prix net: 20 Francs Traductions Italienne, Anglaise et Allemande. [Piano-vocal score].

Paris: Léon Grus [PN L.G. 3381], [1879].

Large octavo. Full modern dark gray cloth. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication to his collaborators and friends Paul Poirson and Louis Gallet, verso blank), 1f. (recto named cast list, verso blank), 1f. (contents), [i] (part title), [iii] (a-c), 287, [i] (blank) pp. Lithographed

Named cast includes Dereims, Stéphanne, Giraudet, Barré, Alfred Maris, Bernard, Lefèvre, Teste, Collin, Chenevière, Villars, Davoust, Chevrier, Franck-Duvernoy, Périer, P. Lévy, Dorel, and Laurençon.

With an inscription signed ([?]A. Giacometti) to dedication.

Columbia Broadcasting System Music Library handstamp to lower margin of free front endpaper and several leaves; tape repairs to gutters of pp. 16-17,18-19, 22-23, 81-99, and 280-281; some soiling to title with small oval publisher's handstamp to lower margin.

Second version, first issue.

Commissioned by Carvalho just after he took on the directorship of the Opéra Comique 1876, Cinq-Mars was "given a lavish production" there on 5 April 1877, to a libretto by Poirson and Ballet after the novel by A.V. de Vigny. "The first appearance of a new opera by as eminent a figure as Gounod attracted a flurry of attention. .." Steven Huebner in Grove Music Online.

Item #28957

Price: $75.00  other currencies