Research Catalog

Title

Esméralda, musique de Pilati. Valse dansée dans le ballet de La Foire de Beaucaire par Melle. Féli [graphic] / arrangee pour le piano ... par Henri Bohlman Sauzeau ; [signed on stone] J. Bérot.

Author

Bérot, J.

Publication

Paris : Alex. Grus, [1841?]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bohlman-Sauzeau, Henri.
• Pilati, Auguste, 1810-1877.

Description

1 print : lithograph, b&w; 33 x 24 cm.

Summary

Sheet music cover illustration depicting the gypsy Esmeralda dancing with a tambourine, her pet goat Djali beside her, before a crowd of onlookers. In the background is the façade of the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris.

Alternative Title

• Valse dansée dans le ballet de La Foire de Beaucaire par Melle. Féli
• Esmeralda. Valse dansée dans le ballet, La Foire de Beaucaire

Subjects

• Esmeralda (Fictitious character)
• Foire de Beaucaire (Choreographic work)
• Lithographs
• Notre-Dame de Paris (Cathedral)
• Sheet music covers
• Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 > Notre-Dame de Paris

Genre/Form

• Sheet music covers.
• Lithographs.

Note

• Caption title.
• Lith. & taille-douce, Magnier.
• Includes the first page of the music score on the verso.

Biography (note)

• Esmeralda, a beautiful and good-hearted gypsy girl, was created by Victor Hugo as the charismatic central figure of his novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), known in English as The hunchback of Notre Dame. The story was soon adapted for the stage; Hugo himself wrote the libretto for Louise Bertin's opera La Esmeralda (1836), as well as a play titled La Esmeralda. Jules Perrot's ballet adaptation, also titled La Esmeralda, was staged at Her Majesty's Theatre in London in 1844.
• According to ballet historian Ivor Guest, Le foire de Beaucaire was a two-act comic ballet presented at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Paris, in Sept. 1841, with a scenario by the Cogniard brothers [Hippolyte and Théodore] and music arranged by Auguste Pilati. Mlle. Féli, a member of the cast, had previously performed in the same theatre's production of Les jours gras aux enfers, in Feb. 1841.
• J. Bérot was a French draughtsman, lithographer, and photographer active in the mid-nineteenth century.

Call Number

*MGZFA-19 Bero J Foi 1

OCLC

821928345

Author

Bérot, J. Artist

Title

Esméralda, musique de Pilati. Valse dansée dans le ballet de La Foire de Beaucaire par Melle. Féli [graphic] / arrangee pour le piano ... par Henri Bohlman Sauzeau ; [signed on stone] J. Bérot.

Imprint

Paris : Alex. Grus, [1841?]

Biography

Esmeralda, a beautiful and good-hearted gypsy girl, was created by Victor Hugo as the charismatic central figure of his novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), known in English as The hunchback of Notre Dame. The story was soon adapted for the stage; Hugo himself wrote the libretto for Louise Bertin's opera La Esmeralda (1836), as well as a play titled La Esmeralda. Jules Perrot's ballet adaptation, also titled La Esmeralda, was staged at Her Majesty's Theatre in London in 1844.

According to ballet historian Ivor Guest, Le foire de Beaucaire was a two-act comic ballet presented at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Paris, in Sept. 1841, with a scenario by the Cogniard brothers [Hippolyte and Théodore] and music arranged by Auguste Pilati. Mlle. Féli, a member of the cast, had previously performed in the same theatre's production of Les jours gras aux enfers, in Feb. 1841.

J. Bérot was a French draughtsman, lithographer, and photographer active in the mid-nineteenth century.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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Added Author

Bohlman-Sauzeau, Henri. Associated name

Pilati, Auguste, 1810-1877. Associated name

Research Call Number

*MGZFA-19 Bero J Foi 1