OFFENBACH, Jacques 1819-1880

Les Contes d'Hoffmann Opéra Fantastique en 4 Actes de Jules Barbier ... Partition Chant et Piano ... Cinquième Edition avec Récits. [Piano-vocal score]

Paris: Choudens [PN A.C. 5100], 1907.

Large octavo. Quarter mid-tan calf with marbled boards, dark brown leather title label gilt to spine, marbled endpapers. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto cast list and contents, verso blank), 327 pp.

Binding very slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped. Minor internal browning; publisher's stamp to lower outer corner of title.

Les contes d’Hoffmann, to a libretto by J. Barbier completed by Guirard, was first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique on 10 February 1881.

"[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. His opera Les contes d’Hoffmann has retained a place in the international repertory ... 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.

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