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Ludwig Minkus and Léo Delibes : La source : fantastic ballet in three acts and four scenes / by Charles Nuitter and Arthur Saint-Léon ; introduced and edited by Robert Ignatius Letellier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Minkus, L., 1826-1917.
- Standardized Title:
- Source
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballets, Arranged.
- Piano music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 p.)
- Piano score.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume reproduces the piano score of the ballet La Source, a joint composition by Ludwig Minkus and Léo Delibes. After the success of Néméa (1864), the Paris Opéra ordered a new grand ballet from the famous choreographer Arthur Saint-Léon to a libretto based on a Persian legend by Charles Nuitter. Saint-Léon involved his musical collaborator in St Petersburg, Ludwig Minkus, in the project, securing for him a hand in the composition of the first and fourth scenes of the of this new work,...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ACT 1 [LUDWIG MINKUS]; ACT 2 [LEO DELIBES]; ACT 3 (1st TABLEAU) [LEO DELIBES]; ACT 3 (2nd TABLEAU) [LUDWIG MINKUS]
- Notes:
- Historical introduction and synopsis preceding music.
- At head of title: Ludwig Minkus and Léo Delibes.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-96881-5
- 9786612968815
- 1-4438-2038-5
- OCLC:
- 827209516
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