GOUNOD Charles. - Lot 258

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GOUNOD Charles. - Lot 258
GOUNOD Charles. MUSICAL MANUSCRIT autograph " Charles Gounod ", Fernand, lyrical scene for 3 voices, 1839; 135 pages in-fol. (36 x 27 cm), bound in contemporary hardback (spine missing, partly unbound). Cantata with which Gounod won the Prix de Rome in 1839. Orchestral score of Fernand, " scène lyrique à 3 voix " [CG 46], composed in early 1839. Gounod entered the lodge on 9 March, with his comrades François Bazin and Ernest Deldevez as competitors. It was his third attempt for the Prix de Rome; on 30 April, he won the first Grand Prix by 23 votes out of 25. The solemn award ceremony will take place on October 5, with a public performance of Fernand by Mme Dorus-Gras, Alexis Dupont and Louis Alizard under the direction of Habeneck. (See Condé p. 525-527). On the title page, Gounod followed his signature with the mention of his masters: " Pupil of M.Mrs Reicha and Lesueur, and of M.Mrs Halévy and Paër ". The poem, as for La Vendetta, is by Amédée de Pastoret. The action takes place under the ramparts of Granada, besieged by the Spanish , and features the Spanish captain Fernand (basset), the Moorish Zelmire (soprano) and her lover Alamir (tenor). The manuscript is written in brown ink on 24-stave paper with an AG watermark. There are numerous erasures, deletions, alterations and corrections, including scratching, in red ink or pencil, with crossed-out bars, and folded and sewn pages, as well as a few bars of a pencil pattern on a front leaf. The orchestra requires: flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns in G and E-flat, trumpets, trombones, ophicleid, timpani, cymbals, bass drum, triangle, violins I and II, violas, cellos, double basses. The score includes: - Introduction and Recitative of Fernand, Andante e legato assai (p.2-19); - Scène 2me (Zelmire, Alamir), Allegro agitato (p. 20-25); - Duo Zelmire-Alamir, Allegro (p. 26-51); - " On entend derrière la scène une marche de guerre ", Tempo di marcia (p. 52-67); - Trio Zelmire-Alamir-Fernand, Andante (p. 68-135). Exhibition : Charles Gounod (Musée Saint-Cloud, 1993, n° 64). Discography: Gounod et le Prix de Rome, Brussels Philharmonic, dir. Hervé Niquet (Palazzetto Bru Zane, Singulares, 2017).
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