LEHÁR, Franz 1870-1948

Giuditta. Musikalische Komödie in 5 Bildern. Buch von Paul Knepler und Fritz Löhner. Klavierauszug mit Text Originalausgabe des Komponisten. [Piano-vocal score]

Wien: Glocken-Verlag [PN G.V. 364], 1961.

Folio. Original publisher's light yellow printed wrappers. [4] (title, cast list, contents, facsimile playbill from the Vienna premiere on January 20, 1934), 5-165, [1] (blank) pp.

Distributor's handstamp to upper and title.

Lehár's operetta Giuditta, composed to a libretto by Paul Knepler and Fritz Löhner, premiered in Vienna at the Staatsoper on January 20, 1934.

After a pause of nearly 5 years, Lehár wrote what would be his last operetta: Giuditta. Staring Richard Tauber and Jarmila Novotna, the work was well-received by audiences, but lambasted by the critics. Yet Lehár considered it above the rest of his oeuvre, stating: "Giuditta is my favorite child; I have been able to put into it something created from my innermost being. With it I have given of my best." Quoted in Grun: Gold and Silver, p. 246.

Item #32046

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