Pelléas et Mélisande. Drame lyrique en 5 actes et 12 tableaux de Maurice Maeterlinck [...]. Partition pour piano et chant.

Paris: E. Fromont. [1902]. First Edition . 3 ff. (title, dedication, table), 283 pp. [PN] 1416. Vocal score, folio, publisher’s green cloth gilt. Publisher’s numbering on last flyleaf: no. 934. Binding somewhat rubbed and shaken, endpapers foxed and inscribed ("from a distant relative of Carreno to Maestro Simone Charol"), ownership stamps ("Biblioteca Privata - Ex Libris Maestro Simon Charol, Roma-New York"), but otherwise clean throughout. From the library of conductor, Simon Charol.


First edition of the vocal score, issued during the year of the first performance at the Opera Comique on the 30th of April, 1902, conducted by André Messager and produced by Albert Carré. Debussy’s only opera was transferred from Fromont to Durand in 1907; the new publisher issued several editions with slight variations. Debussy’s Pelléas is one of the most important and most influential compositions of the early 20th century. (5526)

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