GOUNOD Charles. - Lot 265

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GOUNOD Charles. - Lot 265
GOUNOD Charles. MUSICAL MANUSCRIPT autograph "Ch. Gounod", Le Vin des Gaulois et la Danse de l'Épée (Légende Bretonne). Chorus for 4 male voices with orchestra, December 1851; title and 24 folio pages (35 x 27 cm; some tears, tape repair to title page). Orchestral score of this choir. This choir with orchestra [CG 193], first conceived in July 1849 as a piece for piano for 4 hands, was premiered at the Société Sainte-Cécile on February 15, 1852, to lyrics by Gounod: "Mieux vaut vin nouveau que bière" ("Better new wine than beer")... Gounod wrote to Pauline Viardot on 12 February : " after having given the choristers a preliminary instruction on the ferocity of the accent that I was asking of them, I obtained an execution of such a wild colour that my neighbours could have written that it was a herd of unleashed lions and zebras. Gérard Condé describes it as an 'abrupt and nervous composition, a sister to Berlioz's Chanson des brigands de Lélio' (Condé, p. 854). In G minor at 2/4, it is marked All° non troppo e molto energico. The orchestra includes large and small flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, pistons, 3 trombones, timpani, cymbal and bass drum, triangle, and strings. Attached are: - the autograph manuscript of a "piano accompaniment for four hands" (title and 4 pages in-4); the autograph conductor violin part (title and 3 p. in-4, small cut-out); a copy of the orchestral score, with the material (except the strings)
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