Research Catalog

Title

[La péri on music covers] [graphic].

Publication

[1843? or later]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Alophe, 1812-1883.
• Coindre, Victor, active 1838-1860.
• Hullmandel & Walton. ltg

Description

2 prints : lithograph, b&w; 34 x 26 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Illustrations from the covers of sheet music intended for home performance. Although they depict scenes from Jean Coralli's ballet La péri, these images have been put to the service of other musical compositions without identifying the ballet.

Subjects

• Péri (Choreographic work : Coralli)
• Sheet music covers

Genre/Form

Sheet music covers.

Biography (note)

• La péri (choreography, Jean Coralli; music, Friedrich Burgmüller; scenario, Théophile Gautier and Coralli) was first presented at the Paris Opéra in 1843. Purportedly set in Egypt, it depicted an Orientalist dream world where a peri, a type of fairy with roots in Zoroastrianism, takes over the body of a murdered slave girl in order to achieve union with her mortal lover. A high point of the ballet was the Act I pas de songe, in which the Peri (danced by Carlotta Grisi) leapt from a platform representing the celestial realm into the waiting arms of her lover Achmet (danced by Lucien Petipa). The music cover for Le bouquet de perles "borrows" the image of this leap from a lithograph by Alophe, published in Le Ménestrel. The music cover for Angela is based on a lithograph, held by the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, depicting the lovers' pas de deux with the ensemble of peris in the background. Although it is not an exact copy (for instance, the central figures of the Peri and Achmet have been reversed, and the position of the Peri's arms altered), the overall stage picture and certain details of costume and setting make it recognizable as a scene from La péri.

Contents

Le bouquet de perles, valses brillantes, Fanny Elssler, Marie Taglioni, Fanny Cerrito, Carlotta Grisi, Lucie [sic] Grahn / Hullmandel & Walton lith. -- Angela, valse brillante pour le piano par Paul Henrion; Paris, Colombier / Victor Coi[ndre; incomplete signature on stone] , Imp. Guillet.

Call Number

*MGZFA-19 Peri 1-2

OCLC

768198261

Title

[La péri on music covers] [graphic].

Imprint

[1843? or later]

Biography

La péri (choreography, Jean Coralli; music, Friedrich Burgmüller; scenario, Théophile Gautier and Coralli) was first presented at the Paris Opéra in 1843. Purportedly set in Egypt, it depicted an Orientalist dream world where a peri, a type of fairy with roots in Zoroastrianism, takes over the body of a murdered slave girl in order to achieve union with her mortal lover. A high point of the ballet was the Act I pas de songe, in which the Peri (danced by Carlotta Grisi) leapt from a platform representing the celestial realm into the waiting arms of her lover Achmet (danced by Lucien Petipa). The music cover for Le bouquet de perles "borrows" the image of this leap from a lithograph by Alophe, published in Le Ménestrel. The music cover for Angela is based on a lithograph, held by the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, depicting the lovers' pas de deux with the ensemble of peris in the background. Although it is not an exact copy (for instance, the central figures of the Peri and Achmet have been reversed, and the position of the Peri's arms altered), the overall stage picture and certain details of costume and setting make it recognizable as a scene from La péri.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Added Author

Alophe, 1812-1883. Associated name

Coindre, Victor, active 1838-1860. Lithographer

Hullmandel & Walton. Lithographer

Moore, Lillian. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZFA-19 Peri 1-2