Research Catalog

Title

Ballet and opera images on 19th-century music covers [graphic].

Publication

[1831?-1888?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Bufford, John Henry, 1810-1870.
• Emy, Henri.
• Coindre, Victor, active 1838-1860.
• Jones, T. H.

Description

• 10 prints : lithograph, b&w and col.; 35 x 27 cm. or smaller.
• 1 photomechanical print : photolithograph, b&w on tone block ;

Summary

Images of dancers and dance scenes from ballets and operas, as depicted on the covers of sheet music intended for performance in the home. As indicated by the titles, the musical scores (not included in this collection) were often arranged by composers other than the original creators. Both music and pictures were probably meant to be souvenirs or remembrances of performances enjoyed in the theatre. These music covers sometimes reused or recycled images created and published on other musical scores: for example, this collection's music cover for Henri Rosellen's arrangement of the polka from Le diable à quatre utilizes an image by Henri Emy (uncredited here) that illustrated a musical arrangement by Fessy.

Subjects

• Sims, George R., 1847-1922 > Faust up to date
• Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864 > Robert le diable
• Loder, Edward J (Edward James), 1813-1865 > Night dancers
• Balfe, M. W (Michael William), 1808-1870 > Bohemian girl
• Musicals > Black crook
• Lecocq, Charles, 1832-1918 > Fille de Madame Angot
• Paquita (Choreographic work : Mazilier)
• Aelia et Mysis; ou L'atellane (Choreographic work : Mazilier)
• Halévy, F., 1799-1862 > Juif errant
• Diable à quatre (Choreographic work : Mazilier)
• Sheet music covers

Genre/Form

Sheet music covers.

Indexed In (note)

• Chaffee, George, "American music prints of the Romantic ballet," Dance index

Source (note)

• Lillian Moore.

Biography (note)

• This collection includes images of three ballets by Joseph Mazilier: Aelia et Mysis, ou L'atellane (music, Henri Potier), first performed at the Académie Imperiale de Musique, Paris, in 1853; Le diable à quatre (music, Adolphe Adam), first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1845; and Paquita (music, Edouard Deldevez), first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1846. The operas include M.W. Balfe's The Bohemian girl, first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, in 1843; Meyer Lutz's opera burlesque Faust up to date, first performed at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in 1888; Charles Lecocq's opéra comique La fille de Madame Angot, first performed at the Théâtre des Fantaisies-Parisiennes, Brussels in 1872; Fromental Halévy's Le Juif errant, first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1852; Edward Loder's The night dancers, based on the ballet Giselle, first performed at the Princess's Theatre, London, in 1846; and Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le diable, first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1831. The black crook, considered to be a prototype of the modern musical, was first performed at Niblo's Garden, New York City, in 1866, with a book by Charles M. Barras and music by Giuseppe Operti and others. The production of Faust seen in the print Souvenir de ballet, polka bohemienne de Faust has not been identified.

Contents

La gaditane polka, Mysis polka mazurka sur le ballet Aelia & Mysis de Hy. [Henri] Potier, pour piano par Charles Bizot, Mayence, Les fils de B. Schott, [1853?] -- Black crook ballet music; music composed by G[iuseppe] Operti, musical director at Niblo's Garden; New York, Wm. A Pond, 1871 -- Quadrilles from Balfe's celebrated opera, The Bohemian girl, selected and arranged by Allen Dodworth, New York, Firth, Hall & Pond, 1844 / C. Parsons -- Le diable à quatre, ballet d'Ad[olphe] Adam, polka arrangée pour le piano par Henri Rosellen, Mayence, Les fils de B. Schott, [1845?] / [uncredited image by Henri Emi] -- Souvenir de ballet. Polka bohemienne de Faust, Boston, Russell & Richardson, 1857 [identified by George Chaffee as the Pratesi Sisters, one en travesti] / J.H. Bufford's Lith., photo by Silsbee Case & Co. -- Pas de quatre, the enormously successful dance from opera burlesque Faust up to date; danced by Miss Lilian Price, Miss Florence Levy, Miss Eva Greville, Miss Maud Wilmot; composed by Meyer Lutz; London, E. Ascherberg & Co., [1888?; contains descriptions of the dance in English, French, and German on the verso] -- La fille de Madame Angot valse on Lecocq's comic opera, [publication data trimmed off, 1873?] / Stannard & Son, Imp., Concanen & Lee, Lith. -- Grande valse brillante sur le Juif errant, opéra de Halévy, pour piano par Fréd[er]ic Burgmuller, 3e édition, Paris, Benoit, [1852?] / Victor Coindre -- Ah, no, you'll not forget me! Sung in The night dancers, composed by Edward J. Loder, Boston, Oliver Ditson, [1846?] / J.H. Bufford's Lith. -- Paquita pas de manteaux, valse de salon pour le piano par Fréd[er]ic Burgmüller, Mayence, Les fils de B. Schott, [1846?] -- Robert le diable!!! Quadrille music by Meyerbeer, Illustrated Musical Olio no. 3 / T.H. Jones, del. et lith.

Call Number

*MGZFA-19 Bal 1-11

OCLC

783212226

Title

Ballet and opera images on 19th-century music covers [graphic].

Imprint

[1831?-1888?]

Indexed In:

Souvenir de ballet, Polka bohemienne de Faust Chaffee, George, "American music prints of the Romantic ballet," Dance index, vol. I, no. 12, Dec. 1942, p. 210, catalog no. 75.

Biography

This collection includes images of three ballets by Joseph Mazilier: Aelia et Mysis, ou L'atellane (music, Henri Potier), first performed at the Académie Imperiale de Musique, Paris, in 1853; Le diable à quatre (music, Adolphe Adam), first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1845; and Paquita (music, Edouard Deldevez), first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1846. The operas include M.W. Balfe's The Bohemian girl, first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, in 1843; Meyer Lutz's opera burlesque Faust up to date, first performed at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in 1888; Charles Lecocq's opéra comique La fille de Madame Angot, first performed at the Théâtre des Fantaisies-Parisiennes, Brussels in 1872; Fromental Halévy's Le Juif errant, first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1852; Edward Loder's The night dancers, based on the ballet Giselle, first performed at the Princess's Theatre, London, in 1846; and Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le diable, first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1831. The black crook, considered to be a prototype of the modern musical, was first performed at Niblo's Garden, New York City, in 1866, with a book by Charles M. Barras and music by Giuseppe Operti and others. The production of Faust seen in the print Souvenir de ballet, polka bohemienne de Faust has not been identified.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

For Henri Emy's illustration for Le diable a quatre, published on a musical arrangement by Fessy, see: *MGZFB Gri C Dia 4.

Source

Black crook, Juif errant, Paquita Gift; Lillian Moore.

Added Author

Bufford, John Henry, 1810-1870. Lithographer

Emy, Henri. Artist

Coindre, Victor, active 1838-1860. Artist

Jones, T. H. Artist

Moore, Lillian. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZFA-19 Bal 1-11