OFFENBACH, Jacques 1819-1880

[Monsieur Choufleuri]. Salon Pitzelberger ... Deutsch bearbeitet von Karl Friedrich Wittmann Vollständiger Klavier-Auszug mit deutschem und französischem Text ... M 4.- ... Bibliothek Einaktiger Operetten in Volständigen Klavier-Auszügen mit Gesungenem und Gesprochenem Text. [Piano-vocal score]

Berlin: Ed. Bote & G. Bock [PN 14613], [ca. 1910].

Large octavo. Disbound. 1f. (recto title within decorative border, verso blank), 3 (cast list and contents), [4] (blank), 5-102 pp. Text in German and French.

Remnants of wrapper to spine. Lower outer corner of title lacking.

M. Choufleuri restera chez lui, to a libretto by Saint-Rémy [Duc de Morny], L’Epine, Crémieux, and Halévy, was first performed at the Présidence du Corps Législatif on 31 May 1861 and at the Bouffes-Parisien on 14 September 1861.

"[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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