La Muette de Portici / Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber ; edited and introduced by Robert Ignatius Letellier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auber, D. F. E. (Daniel François Esprit), 1782-1871.

Contributor:

Letellier, Robert Ignatius.

Scribe, Eugène, 1791-1861.

Delavigne, Germain, 1790-1868.

Standardized Title:

Muette de Portici. Vocal score

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Operas--Vocal scores with piano.

Operas.

Operas--Scores.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. His first works were not a success, but La Bergère Châteleine (1820), written at the age of 38, established him as an operatic composer. He then met the librettist Eugène Scribe (1791-1861), with whom he developed a working partnership, one of the most successful in musical history, that lasted until S...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; LA MUETTE DE PORTICI; ACT I; ACT II; ACT III; ACT IV; ACT V

Notes:

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Opera in five acts; libretto by Eugene Scribe and Germain Delavigne.

Reprint. Originally published: Paris : E. Troupenas, ca. 1828.

Introduction in English.

ISBN:

1-4438-3920-5

OCLC:

827209267