Le Rosier. Operetta in 3 acts. Autograph musical manuscript piano-vocal score
Paris: [ca. 1912].
Folio (267 x 351) and quarto (227 x 303 mm). Autograph musical manuscript in black ink notated on 12-stave rastrum-ruled paper. With markings in lead and blue pencil.
Approximately 105 pp.
A working manuscript, with significant cancellations and corrections, including overpastes; titles numbered in blue pencil.
Six numbers from the opera, as follows:
- "9 Chœur des Conseillers Municipaux Bidoux Chœurs des femme ch": 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 6 pp.
- "12 chœur des Bl.": 10, [ii] (blank) pp.
- "18 quatuor = Agathe La Prudent Gabriel Saturnin": 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 9, [i] (blank) pp.
- "19 Final du 23 Acte": 31, [iii] (blank) pp.
- "24 Cortège du Couronnement": 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 11, [iii] (blank) pp.
- "25 Ensemble du Couronnement": [i] (title), 1, 1bis, 2-39, [iii] (blank) pp.
Some minor wear, soiling, stains, and tears to edges; several leaves partially detached.
Le Rosier, an operetta in 3 acts on a libretto by Maurice Devilliers, was first performed on 16 August 1913 at the Casino du Mont-Dore, and revived on 23 February 1925 at the Folies-Dramatiques. The piano-vocal score was first published in 1914 by Hayet.
Casadesus was a French composer, viola player, and viola d’amore player. "In 1901, in collaboration with Saint-Saëns, he founded the Société des Instruments Anciens Casadesus, which until 1939 organized concerts. Rare instruments collected by him are in the collection of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Besides directing the opera theatre in Liège and the Gaîté-Lyrique in Paris, he became known as a musical diplomat, especially in the USA. He was a member of the Capet Quartet. His published compositions include operettas, ballets and songs, and he wrote a treatise and studies for the viola d’amore. There were early Columbia recordings of his Ballet divertissement, Jardin des amours, Récréations de la campagne and Suite florentine. His Hommage à Chausson, for violin and piano, was recorded for American Columbia in the 1950s by Zino Francescatti and Robert Casadesus.
Casadesus was also involved, with his brothers Francis and Marius, in bringing out unknown pieces purportedly by 18th-century composers, but it has long been clear from stylistic evidence that these are entirely the work of the Casadesus brothers, and that has never been denied by the family. Three works in particular have enjoyed a good deal of success: a Violin Concerto in D (‘Adelaïde’) ascribed to Mozart, a Cello Concerto in C minor by ‘J.C. Bach’, and a Viola Concerto in B minor by ‘Handel’." David Cox in Grove Music Online
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