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Catharine-Walzer für das Piano-Forte
- Title
- Catharine-Walzer [graphic] : für das Piano-Forte / componirt von Jos. Wischin ; [illustration by] R. Focosi.
- Author
- Focosi, Roberto.
- Publication
- Mayland : F. Lucca, [1846? or later]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Still image | Supervised use | *MGZFX Foc R Cat 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Brandard, John, 1812-1863.
- Description
- 1 print : lithograph, color; 34 x 25 cm. +
- Summary
- Sheet music cover illustration depicting a dancing couple, both wearing peaked hats and carrying pistols in holsters at their waists. The woman, on the right, curves her right arm over her head as she and the man link their left hands. He places his right hand at his waist and leans away from her, gazing at her face.
- Alternative Title
- Caterina Walzer
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sheet music covers.
- Lithographs.
- Note
- Caption title.
- Pl. no. : a 6187 a.
- At lower right: R. Focosi del.
- Milano, Lit. Corbetta.
- Indexed In (note)
- The lithograph that is the basis for this print, signed by John Brandard, is listed in Beaumont, Cyril W., and Sitwell, Sacheverell, The Romantic ballet in lithographs of the time, London, Faber and Faber, [1938]
- Biography (note)
- Though attributed to Roberto Focosi, this music cover reproduces an image created by John Brandard, depicting a moment from Jules Perrot's ballet Catarina, ou la fille du bandit (music, Cesare Pugni). First performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, in 1846, the ballet's cast was led by the Danish ballerina Lucile Grahn in the title role, Perrot as her lieutenant Diavolino, and Louis Gosselin as the painter Salvator Rosa, an actual historical figure. Brandard's lithograph portrays Perrot and Grahn in a pas de deux from the ballet.
- Call Number
- *MGZFX Foc R Cat 1
- OCLC
- 825120786
- Author
- Focosi, Roberto. Attributed name
- Title
- Catharine-Walzer [graphic] : für das Piano-Forte / componirt von Jos. Wischin ; [illustration by] R. Focosi.
- Imprint
- Mayland : F. Lucca, [1846? or later]
- Indexed In:
- The lithograph that is the basis for this print, signed by John Brandard, is listed in Beaumont, Cyril W., and Sitwell, Sacheverell, The Romantic ballet in lithographs of the time, London, Faber and Faber, [1938], p. 139-140, 296-[297]; plate 76, cat. no. 114. Brandard's print illustrated the sheet music for Cesare Pugni's composition La saltarella from Catarina.
- Biography
- Though attributed to Roberto Focosi, this music cover reproduces an image created by John Brandard, depicting a moment from Jules Perrot's ballet Catarina, ou la fille du bandit (music, Cesare Pugni). First performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, in 1846, the ballet's cast was led by the Danish ballerina Lucile Grahn in the title role, Perrot as her lieutenant Diavolino, and Louis Gosselin as the painter Salvator Rosa, an actual historical figure. Brandard's lithograph portrays Perrot and Grahn in a pas de deux from the ballet.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.Library's copy includes additional leaf with notations by Walter Toscanini.For the lithograph signed by John Brandard, see: *MGZFB Gra L Cat 5.For other prints utilizing this image, see: *MGZFB Gra L Cat 2, *MGZFB Gra L Cat 6 (uncolored).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Brandard, John, 1812-1863. Associated name
- Publisher No.
- a 6187 a : F. Lucca
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFX Foc R Cat 1