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| Id |
4637 |
| Category |
antiquarian music |
| Author / Composer |
DEBUSSY, Claude (1862-1918) |
| Title |
Trois Ballades de François Villon. (Textes Français et Anglais). English Words by Nita Cox. |
| Place |
Paris |
| Publisher |
A. Durand & Fils |
| Publication Date |
1910 [-1912] |
| ISBN / Plate No. |
D&F7871 |
| Series |
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| Size |
4to. [i (title)], 18pp. |
| Description |
Publisher's cream printed wrappers (head and foot of backstrip ever so slightly worn). Title printed in red and black. The copyright date is 1910 and '-1912' has been added afterwards by stamping and not printing. The Trois Ballades were first performed on 5 February 1911, sung by Paul de l'Estang. Lockspeiser describes them as one of Debussy's finest song-cycles (Debussy, His Life and Mind, p.10). The orchestrated edition was published in 1911. |
| Reference |
First edition, first issue. |
| Price |
£125.00 |
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