OFFENBACH, Jacques 1819-1880

Pomme d'Api Operette ne un acte de L. Halevy et W. Busnach ... Théâtre de la Renaissance ... Partition Chant et Piano réduite par Ch. Constantin. [Piano-vocal score]

Paris: Choudens [PN A. C. 2692], [ca. 1947].

Large octavo. Original publisher's decorative gray wrappers. 1f. (recto title within decorative border, verso blank), [i] (recto named cast list and contents) 2-79, [i] (blank) pp.

Named cast includes Théo, Dartaux, and Daubray.

Short splits to wrappers at joints.

Printed from first edition plates.

Pomme d’api, to a libretto by Halévy and Busnach, was first performed in Paris at the Renaissance on 4 September 1873.

"[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 #29206

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