Lehar printed music
Wo die Lerche singt… (1918)
Zigeunerliebe (1910)
Operetta, 3 acts.
Operetta, 3 acts.
Libretto by Ferenc Martos after the play Dorf und Stadt (1847) by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer.
Libretto by A. M. Willner and Robert Bodanzky.
Original Hungarian version A pacsirta premiered Budapest, Király Theatre, 1 January 1918. German version by A. M. Willner and Heinz Reichert; premiered Vienna, Theater an der Wien, 27 March 1918.
“With [Zigeunerliebe] he brought out the full Magyar side of his musical nature: his melodies sounded like old folk-songs, and breathed like sad, beautiful fairy-tales the great melancholy of the Hungarian countryside.” Grun: Gold and Silver, p. 161.
“The folkloristic part of the music is anything but stereotyped; the waltzes, fifteen in number, are without exception of striking originality... The score shows, too, a clear step towards the great transformation... which carries with it the promise of magnificent fulfilment.” Grun: Gold and Silver, p. 178. 215.
Wo die Lerche singt... [Piano-vocal score] Operette in drei Akten ... Klavierauszug mit Text Mk 12.– netto. Wien: W. Karczag [PN W.K. 1161], 1918. Folio. Original publisher’s light green wrappers printed in dark red. [2] (title, cast list, contents), 3-119 pp. “Copyright 1917” to foot of first page of music. Wrappers slightly worn, soiled, and stained. Moderately browned; occasional markings in red pencil. First Edition, later issue. $35 (32044) 216.
Wo die Lerche singt... [Piano-vocal score] Operette in vier Bildern ... Klavierauszug mit Text. Wien: Glocken-Verlag [PN G.V. 90], 1937. Folio. Original publisher’s gray printed wrappers. [2] (title, cast list, contents), 3-108 pp. Handstamp of Waldheim-Eberle to upper along with date stamp of July 8, 1950.
Premiered Vienna, Carltheater, 8 January 1910.
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Zigeunerliebe. [Piano-vocal score]. [Proof copy] Romantische Operette in drei Akten von A. M. Willner & Rob. Bodanzky ...
New York [Vienna]: Breitkopf & Härtel [W. Karczag] [PN K. & W. 250], 1908. Folio. Half light green cloth with textured paper boards. 3-157 pp., printed single-sided. Engraved. Binding scuffed and rubbed with some paper loss, especially to lower. Light uniform browning; occasional paper tape repairs to margins. A rare proof copy, without title, in all likelihood pre-dating the first edition. $165 (32025) 218.
Zigeunerliebe. [Piano-vocal score] Romantische Operette in 3 Bildern. ... Klavierauszug mit Text K 12.– M. 10.– netto. Wien: W. Karczag & C. Wallner [PN K. & W. 250], 1909. Folio. Newly bound in half olive green cloth with patterned paper boards with paper label to upper, titling in black to spine. [2] (title, contents), 3-165 pp.
Wrappers lightly foxed at edges.
With Breitkopf & Härtel, New York, copyright date of 1909 to foot of upper wrapper and 1908 to foot of title. With performance annotations in German throughout and markings in red and lead pencil.
First Edition of the revised four-scene version, later issue.
Binding slightly bumped; upper wrapper slightly trimmed.
$40 (32043)
First Edition, later issue. $85 (32116)
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