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[AWV 17]. La Fiancée (Die Braut) Opera comique en trois Actes. Paroles de M. Scribe ... paroles allemandes, à l'usage de l'Opera Royal de Berlin, du Baron de Lichtenstein. Sans les finales Pr. Arrangement complet pour le Pianoforte. Pr. [blank]. [Piano-vocal score]

[AWV 17]. La Fiancée (Die Braut) Opera comique en trois Actes. Paroles de M. Scribe ... paroles allemandes, à l'usage de l'Opera Royal de Berlin, du Baron de Lichtenstein. Sans les finales Pr. Arrangement complet pour le Pianoforte. Pr. [blank]. [Piano-vocal score]

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[AWV 17]. La Fiancée (Die Braut) Opera comique en trois Actes. Paroles de M. Scribe ... paroles allemandes, à l'usage de l'Opera Royal de Berlin, du Baron de Lichtenstein. Sans les finales Pr. Arrangement complet pour le Pianoforte. Pr. [blank]. [Piano-vocal score]

by AUBER, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871

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Berlin: Fr. Laue [PN 142-161], 1829. Oblong folio. Quarter contemporary brown calf with marbled boards, decorative cut-paper label to upper with titling in manuscript. 1f. (title), [1] (cast list, table of contents, and "Vorerinnerung"), 69, [i] (blank), 54, 35, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. Text in French and German.

Publisher's small circular blindstamp to lower inner corners of initial leaves. Contemporary signature to upper outer corner of front free endpaper.

Binding somewhat worn and rubbed; slight loss to tail of spine; tender at hinges. Mostly minor foxing; lower outer corners soiled; some dampstaining to upper inner margins; minor early repairs to inner margins of preliminary leaves, not affecting text; binder's holes to inner margins; remnants of early blue binding to inner margin of title. Rare early German edition, published just one year after the first edition. Schneider p. 418. Worldcat (3 complete copies only, at the National Library of Israel, the Staats und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, and the Universität Marburg).

La fiancée, an opéra-comique to a libretto by Eugene Scribe, was first performed at the Opéra-Comique (Feydeau) on 10 January 1829.

Auber "composed mostly opéras comiques, and was the foremost representative of this genre in 19th-century France ... [He] consolidated his international reputation with La fiancée and Fra Diavolo." Herbert Schneider in Grove Music Online.

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Title
[AWV 17]. La Fiancée (Die Braut) Opera comique en trois Actes. Paroles de M. Scribe ... paroles allemandes, à l'usage de l'Opera Royal de Berlin, du Baron de Lichtenstein. Sans les finales Pr. Arrangement complet pour le Pianoforte. Pr. [blank]. [Piano-vocal score]
Author
AUBER, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871
Book Condition
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Publisher
Fr. Laue [PN 142-161]
Place of Publication
Berlin
Date Published
1829
Keywords
opera scores, piano-vocal scores, German opera, French opera, 19th-century French opera, 19th-century German opera, 19th-century French composers, 19th-century German publishers, 19th century French opera piano-vocal scores; 19th century French music

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