Item #34485 [Op. 35]. Concerto Romantique pour violon. [Piano reduction]. Benjamin GODARD.

[Op. 35]. Concerto Romantique pour violon. [Piano reduction]

Paris: Heugel & Cie [PN H. et Cie. 9409], [1900?] n.d.

Folio (355 x 275 mm). Original publisher's gray printed wrappers with titling to upper, publisher's advertisements to verso of upper and recto and verso of lower. Score: 31; Violin: 11 pp.

With printed dedication to "Mademoiselle Marie Tayau" to head of upper wrapper.

Wrappers quite worn, chipped, and faded; previous owner's name in manuscript to upper and first page of violin part "Janet Cousins/J Cousins;" publisher's handstamps to title "Schott & Co. ... London;" "Heugel & Cie." Worn, foxed, and thumbed. Performance annotations in pencil to violin part.

"Where most early 20th-century historians soon forgot Godard, or afforded him only a passing mention, the influential English critic Arthur Hervey summed him up well in his history of 19th-century French music, as having somewhat abused his talent for commercial gain. He saw Godard’s music as ‘full of charm’ and ‘breathing a gentle spirit of melancholy’, and said of the composer: ‘he can conjure up visions of the past, stir up memories of forgotten days … the best that was in him was perhaps expressed in works of small calibre, songs and pianoforte pieces’." Richard Langham Smith in Grove Music Online.

Item #34485

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