Madame La Présidente. Operetta in 3 acts. Autograph musical manuscript full score of three numbers from the ballet in Act II
Paris: [ca. 1902].
Oblong folio (269 x 346 mm). Contemporary heavy dark pink wrappers with printed title label to upper "Choudens Éditeur de Musique Paris, 30 Boulevard des Capucines Paris le ...189 [blank] " completed in manuscript: "Madame la Présidente. Ballet. (Remettre) partition d'orchestre." 21 pp. Notated in black ink on 14-stave rastrum-ruled paper. Contains "Aragonaise (No. 1) Acte II": 8 pp.; "Pas de Deux (Scène du Couteau) (No. 2) Acte II": 6 pp., 1f. (blank); "Navarraise (No. 3) Acte II": 7, [i] (blank) pp. Markings in lead and blue pencil. First performed in Paris at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in 1902. Riemann (French), p. 262. Choudens published a piano-vocal score of Madame La Présidente in 1903; this autograph fair copy was likely used to make an arrangement for that edition. Wrappers slightly worn and stained; occasional small stains, tears, and minor soiling.
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"Bataille." Autograph musical manuscript full orchestral score. Ca. 1900. Oblong folio (271 x 347 mm). 9, [i] (blank) pp. Notated on 16-stave rastrum-ruled paper with small embossed blindstamp of the Parisian paper seller Lard. With markings in lead and blue pencil. A composing score with cancellations and corrections. Browned, more heavily to outer margins; some small edge tears and stains.
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?]Le Petit Faust. Autograph musical manuscript full score. Ca. 1900. Folio (340 x 265 mm). 105 pp. Notated in pencil on 18-stave rastrum-ruled paper. Contains nine numbers from a theatrical work scored for orchestra and voices. Characters include Marguerite, Siebel, and Mephisto. Slightly worn; minor dampstaining to lower inner corners and outer edges of first leaves. In very good condition overall.
Diet was a French composer of comic operas, ballets, and pantomimes. Also a professor and music critic, he studied with both Cesar Franck and Ernest Guirand.
We have not located any other manuscript sources for any of these three works.
Item #41255
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