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Pantagruel : opéra-bouffe en cinq actes et six tableaux / de Alfred Jarry et Eugène Demolder ; partition chant et piano réduite par l'auteur.

Accession number
PML 199109
Creator
Terrasse, Claude, 1867-1923.
Published
Paris : Société d'Éditions Musicales, [1910 or 1911]
Credit line
Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2024.
Notes
"Représenté pour la première fois sur le Grand-Théâtre de Lyon, le [blank] janvier 11."--Title page.
The first performance occurred on January 31, 1911.
"U.S.A. copyright by Société d'Éditions Musicales, 1910"--Front cover.
"Paris, Emile Delorisse, grav. S.E.M. 3419 Imp. Minot"--Page 249.
Acquired with the printed libretto (PML 199110) and manuscripts and notes for several early versions of Pantagruel by Alfred Jarry, now housed in the department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts.
Description
1 vocal score ([10], 249, [7] pages) ; 32 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on preliminary page [3] by Terrasse to one of the production's dancers: "A la toute charmante Mademoiselle Carnèsi. En vive sympathie / Claude Terrasse, 31 janvier 1911."
Provenance
Mme Carnèsi (composer's presentation inscription) ; Geneviève & Jean-Paul Kahn ; their sales: Pierre Bergé, 18.vi.21, lot 13; Leducq, Paris, 27.x.23, lot 21.
Binding
Modern 1/4 red leather, marbled sides; with original beige wrappers, printed in green, bound in.
Classification
Department