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Language German Name Offenbach, Jacques, composer, 1819-1880 Level [40] File

1. Hirsch II.690.

Reference (shelfmark):
Hirsch II.690.
Title:
Scope & Content:
JACQUES OFFENBACH (b.1819, d.1880): ‘Die schöne Helena’, opera in 3 acts to a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, in a German translation by Ernst Dohm; 19th cent. Full score, in ink. Copy in a single hand on pages ruled with 24 staves. La belle Hélène was first performed at Paris, Var...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
2 items

2. Hirsch II.691.

Reference (shelfmark):
Hirsch II.691.
Title:
Scope & Content:
JACQUES OFFENBACH (b.1819, d.1880): ‘Orfeus in der Unterwelt’, opera in 4 acts to a libretto by Hector-Jonathan Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy, in a German translation; 19th cent. Full score, in ink. Copy in a single hand on pages ruled with 20 staves. Orphée aux enfers was first performed in a two...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
2 items

3. MS Mus. 1824/3/5/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1824/3/5/1
Title:
D'Oyly Carte Archive: Orpheus in the Underworld (Jacques Offenbach)
Scope & Content:
(1). Piano-vocal score. Photocopy of German edition (Orpheus in der Unterwelt) originally published with German and French words. The German words have been replaced within the copy by English words added by hand (translated by Jeremy Sams, whose name has been added to the title-page, copyright ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1992-1994
Extent:
1 file

4. Zweig MS 72

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 72
Title:
Jacques Offenbach: ‘La belle Hélène’, operetta in three acts (libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy)
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 15 to 24 staves. With corrections and additions in ink, some on inserted leaves, and a few pencil annotations also in autograph. Repeated passages are usually not entered in full and are instead indicated by numbered or lettered bars. In some nu...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
[1864]
Extent:
1 volume (iii + 205 folios)

5. Zweig MS 73

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 73
Title:
Jacques Offenbach: Sketches for unidentified works
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink, with some pencil, mostly on single staves but with some sections in score on up to four staves. In a sketch-book made from leaves or bifolia roughly sewn. Apparently first used, in what is now reverse order, for a sequence of instrumental waltzes, very incompletely ske...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
[c 1855?]
Extent:
1 volume (iii + 10 folios)