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He mentions that he has been unable to establish priority, but there was certainly some resetting of the type to the variants, which he lists as two and three. Sartori Vol.III, p.77; Sonneck p.460.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was Peri who composed La Dafne, which is considered the first opera in the history of it: only one copy is known of the first edition (1597). L’Euridice is the second opera to have been composed and, as we have stated above, the first in which the music survives. It was premiered on 6th October 1600 as part of the wedding celebrations in honour of Henry IV, King of France and Maria Medici. 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A few creases, one ink blot in corner of one page, otherwise in very good condition overall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese busy and substantial sketch leaves, with a few indications such as \"refrain,\" \"mineur,\"  \"scherzo,\" \"vln,\" \"harpe,\" etc. appear to contain numerous workings out for several works. A few sections are clearly single melodic lines, while some are scored for keyboard, winds or string instruments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith Johann Strauss, Jacques Offenbach was \"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, but his most significant achievements lie in the field of operetta. 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Green percaline with gilt title, binding a little loose, else fine.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst performed in Paris at the Opera Comique on the 30th of April, 1902, conducted by Andre Messager and produced by Albert Carre, this important work has  a fascinating early publication history.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\" The first edition of the vocal score of Pelleas was publisehd by E. Fromont of Paris in 1902.  It contained 283 pages and included the original, unexpanded version of the interludes (not, as some writers have stated, no interludes at all). The enlarged interludes first appeared in print in the 409-page orchestral score that was issued on a subscription basis by Fromon in 1904.  Not long after that, the copyright in the work was transferred to the firm that became Debussy's regular publisher,Durand of Paris, who in 1905 rather surprisingly reissued the 1902 vocal score unaltered save for the substitution of their own name for that of Fromont....It was not until 1907, however, that Durand brought out the familiar 320-page second editoin of the vocal score, with parallel French and English texts.  It was re-engraved from beginning to end, not always accurately, and at last included the extended interludes.\"  (Howard Ferguson, \"Debussy's Emendations to 'Pelleas.'\"  The Musical Times, August 1988)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 1905 Durand reissue of the First Edition is sold together with a very fine copy of the the 1907 Second Edition, in marble boards and fine gilt-stamped leather spine.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093087801503,"sku":"7","price":700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/39_2FDebussy_Pelleas_1905066.jpg?v=1722185863"},{"product_id":"90-cimarosa-domenico-1749-1801-18th-century-manuscript-of-the-libretto-of-his-opera-il-morbo-campano","title":"Cimarosa, Domenico.  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In addition it is signed by two conductors, Arturo Toscanini and Giulio Setti, though there is no recorded performance of the opera with both Caruso and Setti.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe score is signed by the following singers:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCio-Cio-San.............Geraldine Farrar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePinkerton...............Enrico Caruso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuzuki..................Rita Fornia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSharpless...............Antonio Scotti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGoro....................Angelo Badà\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate Pinkerton..........Helen Mapleson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommissioner............Bernard Bégué\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConductor...............Arturo Toscanini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith typical humor, Caruso has written “Particularly” just below his name!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis score was originally owned by a Mrs. Franz Herbert Hirschland and is sold together with a letter to her niece, to whom this score was given in 1933. 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He nevertheless continued to draw for La Caricature and for another of Philipon's journals, Le Charivari, developing, in the heat of weekly combat, a graphic style of unsurpassed brilliance in an art that in France had little prestige. When a tightening of censorship in 1835 put an end to La Caricature, Daumier shifted to politically unobjectionable social satire for Philipon's other journal, Le Charivari. In hundreds of lithographs, published serially, two or three a week, he turned a sharp eye on the characteristic look and demeanor of every segment of Parisian society, ranging from the crotchets and timidities of the urban middle class with which he fondly empathized (Les Bons Bourgeois), to the frauds of speculators (Robert Macaire), the pomposities of lawyers (Gens de justice), the self-delusions of artists, the rapacity of landlords, and the vanity of bluestockings. 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