GOUNOD Charles. - Lot 266

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GOUNOD Charles. - Lot 266
GOUNOD Charles. autograph musical manuscript, Iwan the Terrible (1856-1857); ca. 680 pages, mostly in-fol. (34.5 x 27 cm). Important set of drafts of the unfinished opera, Iwan the Terrible. It was in 1855 that the director of the Imperial Academy of Music, François Crosnier, gave Gounod the libretto for Iwan le Terrible, written by Hippolyte Leroy and Henri Trianon. This file shows that Gounod worked enormously on Iwan le Terrible [CG 16 ; Condé p. 464-466], before abandoning it; Bizet will recover the libretto for his Ivan IV. In 1872 Gounod asked his wife, in the event of his death, to destroy his unfinished works, including Iwan; fortunately the file has been preserved, containing about ten complete numbers, or almost, alongside less accomplished sketches, reduced to a melodic line (sometimes without words), and instrumental themes, as well as the libretto for Acts I and III, annotated by Gounod, and four sketchbooks. Most of these sketches are written in brown ink on 30-point paper. The file includes: Act I. - Scene 1. "Chorus of women Cherkesses drawing water from the fountain: at their head is Marie daughter of Temrouk": "Let us draw, my sisters"... (30+4 p.). - Scene between the Russian officer and Temrouk: "Ah! take care? (18 p.). - At the front of the stage, Temrouk. - Behind him, arranged in a semicircle, the Cherkesses who, with their sullen eyes lowered to the ground, accompany with their groans the lamentable song of their old chief": "Ah! that's it"... 2 versions (19 and 14 p.). - Air d'Igor : " Ô fureur ! (20+2 p.). - Invocation of Temrouk: "May the light of Prayer"... (18 p.). - Air d'Igor : " Allah? conduct my hand "... (16 p.). - Sketches (43 p.). Act II. - Chorus : " It is necessary to our warlike voices "... (24 p.). - Chorus: " Adieu, parents? "... (20 p.). - The Song of the Bulgarian Shepherd: "The plain is vast"... [reused for the song of the Shepherd in Mireille] then The Song of the Kozak: "Hurrah? Vive la guerre"... (40 p.). - Chorus of the Captive Cherkesses: " Pleurons, pleurons "... (12 p.). - Scene with Marie, the Bulgarian, Yorlof, Iwan and the choirs: "Silence... from the Kremlin all complaint is banished"... (75 p.). - The same plus Olga: "O holy virgin"... (23 p.). Act III. - Duet Igor-Temrouk: "Separated, we had everything to fear"... (26 p.). - Air then duet: " Ah? of our swallows if he had had the wings? "... (38 p.). - Trio Igor-Yorlof-Temrouk (44 p.). Act IV. - Marie's cavatina: " Amour soudain "... (8 p.). - Barcarolle : " Come sovereign adored "... and duet Marie-Iwan : " For the night party the Moscowa lights up "... (20 p.). - Air d'Igor : " Par la porte secrète "... (36 p.). - Chorus: " O flower of love "... (34 p.). - Scene with Marie, Olga, Igor, Yorlof and Iwan with the chorus: "Czar terrible, appear"... (29 p.). - The same: "Tie him up"... (13 p.). - Duo Igor-Marie (draft voice-piano, (21 p.). - Final (7 p.). - Sketches (10 p.). Act V. - Iwan's air: "I was the bold captain"... (6 p.). - March (3 p.) [Gounod will use it again in The Queen of Sheba]. - Air de Marie : " Iwan, mon noble époux "... (7 p.). - Hymn to Death (Marie and Igor): " Hurrah: Adieu, fière Circassie? "... (7 p.). - Sketches (7 p.). 4 sketchbooks (the first 2 18.5x27.5 cm and the other 2 27x36 cm) for acts I (12 p.), II (4 p.), III (3 p.) and IV (2 p.). Booklet: 2 handwritten notebooks in-4 (27 x 21cm): Act I (15 p. in-4) and Act III (13 p. in-4), with numerous autograph annotations and corrections by Gounod: passages crossed out, some verses redone, tonalities opposite some tunes.
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