Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Offenbach's Songs from the Great Operettas
    Offenbach's Songs from the Great Operettas
    Offenbach's Songs from the Great Operettas
    Ebook256 pages1 hour

    Offenbach's Songs from the Great Operettas

    By Jacques Offenbach

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Jacques Offenbach (1819–80) ranks among the greatest composers of lighthearted operettas, and his famous songs continue to charm millions who know neither their names nor their composer. This volume features the sheet music for 38 popular songs from 14 operettas. All are reproduced from the original sheet music — a few from the original piano-vocal scores, and some with lively pictorial covers. Contents include four songs from Orpheé aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld), five songs from La belle Hélène, four songs from La vie parisienne, six songs from La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein, seven songs from La Périchole, three songs from La fille du tambour-major, and more. The complete French texts appear on the music pages, and a separate section offers English translations. All songs were chosen by Antonio de Almeida, a renowned conductor and authority on Offenbach, who also provides an informative Introduction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateOct 1, 2013
    ISBN9780486171487
    Offenbach's Songs from the Great Operettas

    Related to Offenbach's Songs from the Great Operettas

    Related ebooks

    Music For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Classical Voice

      Nov 10, 2020

      The Classical Voice
      8 min read

    • Article

      Vocal Training For Dancers

      Sep 24, 2019

      Vocal Training For Dancers
      4 min read

    • Article

      Carmen

      Dec 17, 2021

      Carmen
      2 min read

    • Article

      Diverse Divas Of The Past

      Jun 9, 2021

      Diverse Divas Of The Past
      4 min read

    • Article

      Opera At Home

      Sep 13, 2019

      CDs DONIZETTI Opera Rara ORC58 One of the most prolific of opera composers, Gaetano Donizetti penned over 70 works in 30 years. But this one, L’Ange de Nisida, never saw the light of day in its original form. Scheduled for an 1839 Paris premiere, the

      11 min read

    • Article

      César Franck at 200

      Nov 18, 2022

      TAP TO WATCH Listen to Franck’s Prélude Op 18 on the organ When Christmas comes around, you can be guaranteed of hearing Franck’s Panis angelicus in some form or other: as a vocal solo, perhaps, or a duet, or instrumental version, or orchestral arra

      8 min read

    • Article

      Letter from Aix

      Dec 13, 2019

      Letter from Aix
      6 min read

    • Article

      Opera At Home

      Oct 27, 2017

      SAINT-SAËNS Palazzetto Bru Zane: Opéra français, Vol. 15 Although Camille Saint- Saëns composed thirteen operas, Samson et Dalila tends to be the only one performed regularly today. Henry VIII, Les Barbares, Hélène, and many others have fallen into o

      10 min read

    • Article

      Tales Of The Underworld

      Feb 20, 2024

      Tales Of The Underworld
      1 min read

    • Article

      Richard Osborne

      Jul 27, 2022

      Richard Osborne
      3 min read

    • Article

      Handel’s Genius Shines In This Unforgettable Show

      Oct 4, 2022

      Amadigi di Gaula Tim Mead, Mary Bevan, Anna Dennis, Hilary Summers, Patrick Terry; Early Opera Company/Christian Curnyn Chandos CHSA 0406(2) (CD/SACD) 157:16 mins (2 discs) Handel took a less-is-more approach to his Amadigi di Gaula. Christian Curnyn

      6 min read

    • Article

      Hidden treasures

      Jun 13, 2023

      Between 2001 and ’22, I was tasked with finding a ‘rarely performed’ opera on an annual basis for University College Opera’s yearly production in March. The invitation to take down a piece from the shelf that few, if any, had ever seen, then putting

      6 min read

    • Article

      Addicted To Alkan

      Sep 18, 2020

      It’s a fairly simple story. When I was a pupil at the Purcell School of Music, every year there was a spring piano course focusing on a particular area of the repertoire. Each student was assigned a piece and participated in masterclasses given by a

      5 min read

    • Article

      Enduring Myths

      Oct 29, 2020

      Jeremy Pound delves into the world of classical poetry to explore how Ovid’s Metamorphoses has inspired a wealth of composers over the centuries In 8 AD, the poet Ovid found himself in a bad place. Quite literally. Exiled by Emperor Augustus, he was

      5 min read

    • Article

      Letter From Aix-en-provence

      Sep 19, 2022

      Letter From Aix-en-provence
      5 min read

    • Article

      Opera At Home

      Jun 15, 2021

      SCHREKER OEHMS OC 980 OPER FRANKFURT IS ARGUABLY the “right” company to produce this Der ferne Klang recording, because Austrian composer Franz Schreker (1878-1934) had a special connection with this opera house. It was here that he scored his first

      15 min read

    • Article

      Louise Farrenc

      May 13, 2021

      Louise Farrenc
      6 min read

    • Article

      Opera in Review

      Feb 9, 2018

      Opera in Review
      47 min read

    • Article

      Phyrné

      Mar 21, 2022

      SAINT-SAËNS PALAZETTO BRU ZANE BZ1047 THE LATEST RELEASE IN THE CD/book series from the Palazetto Bru Zane is Saint-Saëns’s 1893 opéra comique, Phryné, loosely based on an incident in the life of the famous 4th-century BCE courtesan. It’s a two-act p

      2 min read

    • Article

      Letter from Paris

      Sep 12, 2018

      Letter from Paris
      7 min read

    • Article

      Opera At Home

      Jun 17, 2019

      CDs ADAMS Nonesuch 7559793107 Doctor Atomic, John Adams’ 2005 opera about the development of the first atomic weapon, makes a powerful CD debut with this issue. This is helped by that fact the piece is almost more oratorio than opera with very little

      9 min read

    • Article

      Reynaldo Hahn

      Mar 18, 2021

      Reynaldo Hahn
      6 min read

    • Article

      The City Of Light

      Feb 21, 2023

      The City Of Light
      6 min read

    • Article

      The City Of Light

      Feb 21, 2023

      The City Of Light
      6 min read

    • Article

      Denise Wendel-Poray

      Dec 11, 2020

      Denise Wendel-Poray
      5 min read

    • Article

      From Variety to Verismo

      Sep 30, 2021

      From Variety to Verismo
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Offenbach's Songs from the Great Operettas

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Offenbach's Songs from the Great Operettas - Jacques Offenbach

      Jacques Offenbach (photograph by Nadar)

      Acknowledgments

      The publisher is grateful to the Music Division of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, for supplying reproduction copy of the original sheet music for seven songs.

      All the other music is from the collection of Mr. Antonio de Almeida. The three items noted in the Contents have been reproduced from the original vocal scores, the remaining items from the original sheet music.

      The illustrations in the Introduction are also from Mr. de Almeida’s collection. The frontispiece portrait of Offenbach is from the Nadar photograph.

      Copyright

      Copyright © 1976, 2010 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved.

      Bibliographical Note

      Offenbach’s Songs from the Great Operettas; Complete Original Music for 38 Songs from 14 Operettas by Jaques Offenbach is a new work, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1976, and reprinted in 2010.

      9780486171487

      Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

      23341308

      www.doverpublications.com

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Acknowledgments

      Copyright Page

      Introduction

      CHANSON DE FORTUNIO

      ORPHÉE.

      ORPHÉE.

      LE PONT DES SOUPIRS

      LA BELLE HÉLÈNE

      LA BELLE HÉLËNE

      LA BELLE HÉLÈNE

      LA BELLE HELLENE

      LA BELLE HELENE

      BARBE - BLEUE

      LA VIE PARISIENNE

      LA VIE PARISIENNE

      LA VIE PARISIENNE - opérette bouffe en cinq actes.

      LA VIE PARISIENNE

      LA GRANDE DUCHESSE .

      LA GRANDE DUCHESSE

      LA GRANDE DUCHESSE

      LA GRANDE DUCHESSE

      LA GRANDE DUCHESSE

      LA GRANDE DUCHESSE

      GENEVIÈVE DE BRABANT

      LA PERICHOLE

      LA PÉRICHOLE

      LA PÉRICHOLE

      LA PÉRICHOLE

      LA PÉRICHOLE

      LA PÉRICHOLE

      LES BRIGANDS

      POMME D’API

      MADAME L’ARCHIDUC

      MADAME L’ARCHIDUC

      VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE

      FILLE DU TAMBOUR MAJOR

      FILLE DU TAMBOUR MAJOR

      FILLE DU TAMBOUR MAJOR

      Translations of Song Texts

      Introduction

      Jacques Offenbach, who was to spend much of his life hobnobbing with emperors, kings and princes, was born in very modest circumstances in Cologne on June 20, 1819. He was the second son of Isaac Offenbach, who, some years before marrying and settling down as cantor to the Jewish community of the great German city, had changed his name from Eberst to that of his native town of Offenbach-am-Main.

      In November 1833 the youth’s precocious musical talents led his father to take him to Paris and enter him in the finest music school of the time, the Conservatoire de Musique. Despite the tender age of Jakob (his name had not yet been gallicized), which technically rendered him ineligible for enrollment in that august institution, the director, Luigi Cherubini, was so impressed with his ability that he admitted him as a cello student.

      Jacques (now so renamed) rapidly acquired great proficiency on his instrument, and in 1834 he became a member of the orchestra of the Theatre de l’Opéra-Comique. His ceaseless activities on the Parisian musical scene soon led to his becoming one of the darlings of the numerous musical salons which had blossomed in the somewhat artificial cultural milieu of the newly developing bourgeoisie.

      From 1836 on, he began composing salon pieces for various instrumental and vocal combinations, as well as waltzes for the orchestra of Musard, which played in the Jardin Turc, one of the several popular establishments which had sprung up to cater to the insatiable Parisian taste for light entertainment.

      Within a few years, Offenbach’s fame as a cellist led to engagements not only in France, but in England and Germany. In London in 1844 he played for Queen Victoria, Tsar Nicolas I and Ludwig I, King of Bavaria, and shared a program with Mendelssohn and the violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim; in 1848 he also shared a program with Liszt in the Cologne cathedral.

      From 1850 to 1856 he held the post of Director of Music at the Comédie-Française, which implied not only leading the 20-piece orchestra (26 for galas!) in all the performances, but also composing incidental music for many of the new productions, including such staples of the repertoire as Beaumarchais’s Le barbier de Séville and Le mariage de Figaro. His real love, however, lay in the musical theater and, after a few modest experiences in that field, he succeeded in obtaining in 1855 the lease of a tiny theater on the Champs-Elysées, which he aptly baptized the Bouffes-Parisiens.

      His contract with the government, which strictly controlled and censored all theaters, restricted him to producing playlets with no more than four singers (when in 1857 he introduced a fifth character in Croquefer, he was forced by the censor to transform him into a mute),

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1