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J. Offenbach. Autograph sketchleaf for an unidentified operetta, C19th

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

December 13, 11:59 AM GMT

Estimate

1,200 - 1,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jacques Offenbach


Autograph sketchleaf for an unidentified operetta


marked "No.5 Danse marche et choeur", including many short working sketches notated in short score and vocal score, together with drafts of the song texts, including for the choruses "Vive vive de la Bohème" and "Excès d'audace et d'insolence", and with other portions of the text written under the music, with many deletions, revisions and alterations


...Vive vive de la Bohème / ces Refrains si joyeux / vive les chants si gracieux / Ecoutez jeunes filles / Les tendres Seguidilles / aux amens enchanteurs / Les folles chansonettes / aux sons des castanettes / qui font battre le coeur...


2 pages, oblong folio (27 x 35cm), 24-stave paper by Lard Esnault of Paris, together with a note of dedication signed by Offenbach, on a separate slip of paper, no place or date [C19th], some foxing and staining, creasing along central fold, small tears and repairs to margins


This is a large and dynamically written sketchleaf for an operetta, apparently composed on a Spanish theme, with scenes of "la vie de Bohème".


PROVENANCE

Sale in these rooms, 26 May 2000 (lot 196)

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