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Ravel, Maurice. (1875–1937) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] L'Enfant et les Sortilèges / Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties – Conductor's Score from the Collection of Mitropoulos
Ravel, Maurice. (1875–1937) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] L'Enfant et les Sortilèges / Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties – Conductor's Score from the Collection of Mitropoulos
Ravel, Maurice. (1875–1937) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] L'Enfant et les Sortilèges / Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties – Conductor's Score from the Collection of Mitropoulos
Ravel, Maurice. (1875–1937) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] L'Enfant et les Sortilèges / Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties – Conductor's Score from the Collection of Mitropoulos
Ravel, Maurice. (1875–1937) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] L'Enfant et les Sortilèges / Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties – Conductor's Score from the Collection of Mitropoulos
Ravel, Maurice. (1875–1937) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] L'Enfant et les Sortilèges / Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties – Conductor's Score from the Collection of Mitropoulos
Ravel, Maurice. (1875–1937) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] L'Enfant et les Sortilèges / Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties – Conductor's Score from the Collection of Mitropoulos
Ravel, Maurice. (1875–1937) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] L'Enfant et les Sortilèges / Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties – Conductor's Score from the Collection of Mitropoulos
Ravel, Maurice. (1875–1937) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)]. L'Enfant et les Sortilèges / Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties – Conductor's Score from the Collection of Mitropoulos. Paris: Durand & Cie.. 1925. First Edition.

Rare first edition of the full score of the opera.  Upright folio.  Hardcover with original marbled boards and endpapers.  Lithographed from plates by A. Mounot, Paris (note to foot of final page).  No PN.  Title with character list to verso; one more leaf with continuation of character list, followed by note on first performance; instrument list and copyright notice to verso; 1–212 pp.  From Mitropoulos's personal collection.  Scattered pencil markings throughout, including some interlinear English translation of text underlay, likely in the hand of Mitropoulos's protégé James Dixon.  14.75 x 11 inches (37.5 x 27.7 cm).  Moderate wear to boards and spine, upper spine detached and partly lost; partial separation along joint of endpapers to backing boards; upper right corner bumped (upper board and first leaves only); small tear to pp. 159–60; overall in fine condition. 


Legendary French author Colette wrote the libretto for L'enfant et les sortilèges in just eight days.  It subsequently took Ravel eight years to complete the score, with at least one significant pause due to exhaustion and poor health.  Completed in 1925, the last spell of work on the opera was inspired by George Gershwin and the broader world of American musicals and reviews.

Dimitri Mitropoulos was Greece’s most prolific conductor and New York Philharmonic Music Director from 1949-1958.  Widely regarded as one of the most significant conductors of the twentieth century, he is best remembered for his significant recorded legacy and for his commitment in bringing new compositions to the stage of major symphony orchestras.  Indeed, it is thanks to his efforts that many of our current symphonic standards made their way into the repertory.  He gave World and American premiers of seminal works such as Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 and Schoenberg’s Erwartung, as well as other major works by Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and many others.  His personal collection has been held in private hands since his death in 1960, when it passed to conductor James Dixon, his student and protégé.  Mitropoulos came to consider Dixon his son, introducing him to conductors and performing arts institutions around the world, jumpstarting his career.  When Mitropoulos died in 1960 he left all his belongings, including his scores, to Dixon.  The bulk of the musical library has been subsequently gifted to the University of Iowa’s music library, but a selection of rare items have been selected to be offered for sale exclusively by Schubertiade Music & Arts.  These examples, many inscribed to the conductor from composers or associates, have only occasional markings from the conductor himself who committed all music to memory before his first rehearsal of the repertoire - a highly unusual method!  Some of these scores, however, were also subsequently used by James Dixon as part of his working reference library for many years and include his occasional markings.

Ravel, Maurice. (1875–1937) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] L'Enfant et les Sortilèges / Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties – Conductor's Score from the Collection of Mitropoulos

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Ravel, Maurice. (1875–1937) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)]. L'Enfant et les Sortilèges / Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties – Conductor's Score from the Collection of Mitropoulos. Paris: Durand & Cie.. 1925. First Edition.

Rare first edition of the full score of the opera.  Upright folio.  Hardcover with original marbled boards and endpapers.  Lithographed from plates by A. Mounot, Paris (note to foot of final page).  No PN.  Title with character list to verso; one more leaf with continuation of character list, followed by note on first performance; instrument list and copyright notice to verso; 1–212 pp.  From Mitropoulos's personal collection.  Scattered pencil markings throughout, including some interlinear English translation of text underlay, likely in the hand of Mitropoulos's protégé James Dixon.  14.75 x 11 inches (37.5 x 27.7 cm).  Moderate wear to boards and spine, upper spine detached and partly lost; partial separation along joint of endpapers to backing boards; upper right corner bumped (upper board and first leaves only); small tear to pp. 159–60; overall in fine condition. 


Legendary French author Colette wrote the libretto for L'enfant et les sortilèges in just eight days.  It subsequently took Ravel eight years to complete the score, with at least one significant pause due to exhaustion and poor health.  Completed in 1925, the last spell of work on the opera was inspired by George Gershwin and the broader world of American musicals and reviews.

Dimitri Mitropoulos was Greece’s most prolific conductor and New York Philharmonic Music Director from 1949-1958.  Widely regarded as one of the most significant conductors of the twentieth century, he is best remembered for his significant recorded legacy and for his commitment in bringing new compositions to the stage of major symphony orchestras.  Indeed, it is thanks to his efforts that many of our current symphonic standards made their way into the repertory.  He gave World and American premiers of seminal works such as Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 and Schoenberg’s Erwartung, as well as other major works by Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and many others.  His personal collection has been held in private hands since his death in 1960, when it passed to conductor James Dixon, his student and protégé.  Mitropoulos came to consider Dixon his son, introducing him to conductors and performing arts institutions around the world, jumpstarting his career.  When Mitropoulos died in 1960 he left all his belongings, including his scores, to Dixon.  The bulk of the musical library has been subsequently gifted to the University of Iowa’s music library, but a selection of rare items have been selected to be offered for sale exclusively by Schubertiade Music & Arts.  These examples, many inscribed to the conductor from composers or associates, have only occasional markings from the conductor himself who committed all music to memory before his first rehearsal of the repertoire - a highly unusual method!  Some of these scores, however, were also subsequently used by James Dixon as part of his working reference library for many years and include his occasional markings.

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