Les Pantins de Violette Opèrette Bouffe en un Acte. Paroles de L. Battu ... A sa fille Angèle Adam. Partition Chant & Piano. [Piano-vocal score]

  • Paris: C. Joubert [PN B. & Cie. 9681], 1900
By ADAM, Adolphe 1803-1856
Paris: C. Joubert [PN B. & Cie. 9681], 1900. Large octavo. [i] (title), [i] (publishing note), 1f. (named cast list and contents), 46, 1f. (blank) pp. Lithographed.

Occasional performance annotations in blue crayon and pencil.

Wrappers lacking; spine reinforced with brown paper tape. Minor staining to lower portions of some pages; small oval music seller's handstamp to title; former owner's signature to title, cast list, and first page of music (with transfer to facing blank page); small tear to lower margin of p. 9; vertical crease to pp. 35-38. Printed from Brandus plates.

'[Adam's] final dramatic work, the charming one-act operetta Les pantins de Violette, was produced at the Bouffes-Parisiens, where it shared the bill with Offenbach’s Le thé de Polichinelle, on 29 April 1856. Four nights later Adam died in his sleep." Elizabeth Forbes in Grove Music Online.

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