Massenet jules

1919 · 29149 — Paris: Au Ménestrel Heugel et Cie. PN H. & Cie. 24473 1919. Large octavo. Original publisher's gray printed wrappers. 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. recto notes on first performance and named cast list verso blank 1f. recto contents verso blank 229 i blank 1f. recto printing statement verso blank pp. Text in French and English.<br/><br/>Named cast list for Vienna performance includes Van Dyck Neidl Mayerhofer Schlittenhelm Félix Stoll Renard Forster and Carlona and for Paris performance Ibos Bouvet Thierry Barnolt Artus Eloi Delna Laisne and Domingue.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn; head and tail of spine slightly defective with tape reinforcement. Werther to a libretto by Edouard Blau Paul Milliet and Jean-François-Romain-Georges Hartmann based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers 1774 was first performed in Vienna at the Hofoper on February 16 1892 under the direction of Jahn and in Paris at the Opéra-Comique on January 16 1893 under the direction of Carvalho.<br/><br/>"In no other Massenet opera is the melodic inspiration so rich. Werther is on the surface a simple almost commonplace story of love and death but the composer's insights shed an uncomfortable light on the workings of the human psyche in a fashion that is quite surprisingly worthy of Goethe. Massenet may have matured subsequently as a composer certainly in matters of form and technique but he wrote nothing greater or more heartfelt than Werther." Rodney Milnes in Grove Music Online. Au Ménestrel, Heugel et Cie. [PN H. & Cie. 24473] unknown books