Beschreibung:

Offenbach, Jacques THE AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF THE OPÉRA-BOUFFE LES BRIGANDS, A SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE EARLY VERSION DIVERGING CONSIDERABLY FROM THE PUBLISHED VOCAL SCORE, INCLUDING FOUR NUMBERS AND OTHER SHORTER SECTIONS NOT PUBLISHED the full orchestral score in three acts, written in brown ink on up to twenty-four staves per page, with autograph titles (some including sketches) written on bifolio-wrappers for most of the numbers ("1re acte Les Brigands/ no .1..."), with extensive deletions, revisions, alterations and corrections, including to the vocal lines, some pages crossed through and smaller details scratched out by the composer, and some passages revised on separate sections of manuscript paper stitched or pinned into the score, the repeated sections frequently indicated by numbers and cues, together with notes by the composer to the copyist ("...Je prie le copiste d'écrire le chant dans la partie de Clarinettes...", and for the performers ("...Tout le monde coi soprani doit prononcer à demie voix et sur le rythme musicale...", several short sketches, and other autograph memoranda, and also with a few additional markings ("Rideau"), many instrumental designations (to the Act 1 finale) and bar-numbers added in another hand c. 430 pages, including autograph titles, together with blanks, oblong folio, 24-stave paper by Lard-Esnault of Paris, the bifolia numbered by the composer within each section, unbound and uncut, modern green morocco folders gilt, [Paris, c.1869], lacking about four numbers at the end, some tears to margins and dust-marking to titles