Romeo et Juliette. Sinfonie dramatique avec Choeurs, Solos de Chant et Prologue en Récitatif choral composée d'après la Tragédie de Shakespeare ... A Nicolo Paganini ... Op. 17 Partition de Piano par Th. Ritter. [Piano-vocal score]

  • Leipzig: J. Rieter-Biedermann [PN 818], 1875
By BERLIOZ, Hector 1803-1869
Leipzig: J. Rieter-Biedermann [PN 818], 1875. Large octavo. Half dark brown cloth with marbled boards, original publisher's printed wrappers with titling within decorative border bound in. 1f. (title), 3-118 pp. Text in French and German.

Minor tears to lower margin of upper wrapper. Slightly browned. Hopkinson 39D(d).

"... in some respects [Berlioz's] most interesting solutions to issues of operatic style are to be found in Roméo et Juliette (Friar Laurence's scene and the superb finale which follows may be compared with the best in Meyerbeer)." D. Kern Holoman in Grove Music Online.

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Romeo et Juliette. Sinfonie dramatique avec Choeurs, Solos de Chant et Prologue en Récitatif choral composée d'après la Tragédie de Shakespeare ... A Nicolo Paganini ... Op. 17 Partition de Piano par Th. Ritter. [Piano-vocal score]

Author

BERLIOZ, Hector 1803-1869

Condition

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Publisher

J. Rieter-Biedermann [PN 818]: Leipzig

Date

1875


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