Die Fledermaus [Piano-vocal score]
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- Leipzig ..: Aug. Cranz [PN F.S. No. 23422], 1966
Leipzig ..: Aug. Cranz [PN F.S. No. 23422], 1966. Folio. Full dark red cloth with titling gilt and decorative device in olive green, black, and gilt to upper; patterned endpapers. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [1] (contents), 2-168 pp.
Binding very slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped. Minor internal wear; former owner's name to blank upper margin of title ("Emerich Voitek") in contemporary manuscript. Printed from first edition plates.
"Over the next quarter of a century [from 1885] a further 14 operettas and even a grand opera (Ritter Pásmán, 1892) cemented Strauss’s position as the leading light in ‘Silver Age’ Viennese operetta, though even in the composer’s lifetime only three of these found international success: Die Fledermaus (1874), Eine Nacht in Venedig (1883) and Der Zigeunerbaron." Peter Kemp in Grove Music Online.
Binding very slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped. Minor internal wear; former owner's name to blank upper margin of title ("Emerich Voitek") in contemporary manuscript. Printed from first edition plates.
"Over the next quarter of a century [from 1885] a further 14 operettas and even a grand opera (Ritter Pásmán, 1892) cemented Strauss’s position as the leading light in ‘Silver Age’ Viennese operetta, though even in the composer’s lifetime only three of these found international success: Die Fledermaus (1874), Eine Nacht in Venedig (1883) and Der Zigeunerbaron." Peter Kemp in Grove Music Online.