Messager Andre 1853 1929 (84 results)

Softcover. Condition: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Couverture différente. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.…

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Size: Folio. 23pp. Folded as issued in publisher's printed wrappers.

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Quarto. Original publisher's illustrated wrappers. [i] (title), [ii] (printer's device), [iii] (dramatis personae), [iv] (contents), 244, [ii] (publisher's advertisements) pp. Small composer's facsimile signature handstamp to title. Wrappers worn and detached; upper wrapper trimmed and laid down; lower lacking; spine lacking and reinforced with paper tape. Worn; title with small chips and tears and taped at hinge; slight damage to 2 leaves at inner margin. First English edition, revised for the London stage. …

Condition: New. In English.

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Folio. Original publisher's decorative ivory wrappers. 1f. (half title), 1f. (title), [i] (notes on first performance and cast list), [ii] (contents), [i] (blank), 253, [i] (blank) pp. With named cast in manuscript for a performance at the Opéra Comique in November of 1917 to cast list. Wrappers worn and chipped with some loss; edges dampstained; partially detached; archival tape repairs. Some loss to lower margin of half-title; minor light staining to final few leaves. First Edition. Béatrice, to a libretto by Caillavet and Flers after C. Nodier, was first performed in Monte Carlo on 21 March 1914. "Messager's most significant stage work from the war years was Béatrice (1914), a quasi-Wagnerian piece, whose première was moved from Paris to Monte Carlo at the outbreak of war." "Messager's style is characterized by fine orchestration (evident also in the ballet music), a gift for easy-flowing melody, often in a waltz rhythm, and a skill in writing music of a dance-like character. [His]contribution to French music, both through his own works and as conductor and promoter of opera, is undeniable, and was recognized as such by his musical contemporaries in many countries." John Wagstaff and Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online.…

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Size: 8vo. [vi], 362pp. Quarter leather (rubbed, front hinge broken) with cloth corners and tooling of L. Grus ' Cie. Place St Augustin. A curious "hire library" copy with each page expertly hinged for ease of turning pages and keeping the volume flat when being read.

Large octavo. Quarter black calf with black pebbled paper boards, spine in ruled compartments gilt, titling gilt. 1f. (decorative title), 1f. (notes on first performance, named cast list, and contents), 223, [i] (blank) pp. Named cast includes Jourdan, Simon-Max, Gobin, Chauvreau, Riga, Duhamel, Simon-Girard, Vialda, Lucy Jane, Marguerite Hicks, and Veil. Binding worn and rubbded; hinges split. Title slightly browned and stained, with bookseller's handstamp; first two leaves partially detached. First Edition, [?]second issue. La fauvette du temple, to a libretto by Burano and Humbert, was first performed in Paris at the Folies-Dramatiques on November 17, 1885. …

Quarto. Full dark green cloth library binding, titling and shelf number gilt to spine. 1f. (dedication), 1f. (title), 1f. (notes on first performance and named cast list), 1f. (contents), 135, [i] (blank) pp. Named cast includes Yvonne Printemps, Marthe Ferrare, Marie Dubas, Reine Bernède, Duplessis, Duval, Cornet, Sacha Guitry, Louis Maurel, Urban, Pierre Darmant, L. Kerly, Henri Garat, Marin, Robert Jugain, and de Size. From the collection of noted American conductor and composer Sigmund Romberg (1887-1951), with "Library of Sigmund Romberg" gilt to lower outer corner of upper board. Binding slightly worn, with remnants of label to spine; library bookplate to front pastedown with "withdrawn" stamped in red. Outer margins trimmed, not affecting music; perforated doodles to first leaf; library handstamp to third leaf. First Edition. L'amour masqué, to a libretto by S. Guitry, was first performed on15 February 1923. "Messager's style is characterized by fine orchestration (evident also in the ballet music), a gift for easy-flowing melody, often in a waltz rhythm, and a skill in writing music of a dance-like character. [His] contribution to French music, both through his own works and as conductor and promoter of opera, is undeniable, and was recognized as such by his musical contemporaries in many countries." John Wagstaff and Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online. …