STRAUSS, Johann, Jr. 1825-1899

Ritter Pásmán [Piano-vocal score]

Komische Oper in 3 Acten von Ludwig Dóczi

Berlin: N. Simrock, [1892].

Quarto. Modern dark brown flexible boards with titling gilt to spine. 1f. (recto attractive illustrated title printed in color, verso blank), 3 (cast list), 4 (contents), 5-283, [i] (blank) pp.

Binding slightly worn. Uniform light browning; title slightly trimmed just touching text; small oval handstamp to upper inner corner of title ("Lola Carena") and upper outer corner of first page of music.

First Edition. Weinmann p. 113.

Ritter Pásmán, to a libretto by L. Dóczi after J. Aranyi, was first performed in Vienna at the Court Opera on 1 January 1892.

"Over the next quarter of a century [from 1885] a further 14 operettas and even a grand opera (Ritter Pásmán, 1892) cemented Strauss’s position as the leading light in ‘Silver Age’ Viennese operetta." Peter Kemp in Grove Music Online.

Item #36143

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