KÁLMÁN, Emmerich 1882-1953

Ein Herbstmanöver. Operette in drei Akten von Karl von Bakonyi. Deutsche Übersetzung und Text der Gesänge von Robert Bodanzky ... Klavierauszug mit Text. [Piano-vocal score]

Leipzig, Wein: W. Karczag [PNs K. & W. 315; 315.343], Ca. 1909.

Folio. Original publisher's dark ivory printed wrappers with titling to upper. 1f. (title), 3-106 pp. Text in German.

Wrappers quite worn, creased, chipped, and torn; spine reinforced with brown tape; detached. Uniformly browned; some markings in pencil throughout.

First Edition, later issue.

Ein Herbstmanöver was set to a libretto by Karl von Bakonyi and Robert Bodanzky and premiered in Vienna at Theater an der Wein on January 22, 1909.

"At an early age [Emmerich Kàlmàn] showed musical talent and an interest in the theatre, being a frequent visitor to the summer theatre in Siófok. He had high hopes of becoming a concert pianist, but he had to abandon these studies due to the onset of chronic neuritis. In 1900 he joined Koessler’s composition class at the National Hungarian Royal Academy of Music, where for a time he was a fellow student of Bartók, Kodály and Leó Weiner, as well as the future operetta composers Albert Szirmai and Viktor Jacobi. ... In Vienna, Kálmán began a sequence of successful works that in due course ranked him with Lehár as the leading exponent of the Viennese operetta genre in the period after World War I. ... Kálmán’s most successful and typical works are those in which the Viennese waltz is mixed with the Hungarian popular style. His major international operetta successes all had Hungarian settings, while other works had sub-plots with opportunities for music in the Hungarian manner." Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online.

Item #32176

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