Ravel, Maurice. (1875-1937). L'Heure Espagnole. Comédie Musicale. Fantaise pour Piano par Léon Roques. . Paris: Durand. After 1912. First edition. First edition of this arrangement for piano. [PN] 8489. Title; 1-11. Original brown wrappers, reinforced at spine. In very good condition.
The one-act opera was first publicly performed at the Opéra-Comique on 19th May, 1911 in a double-bill with Massenet's "Therese. One contemporary critic panned it as a "pornographic vaudeville" (Gaston Carrud in La Liberté), but A.E.F. Dickinson has described it as a "song in praise of the human body."
The one-act opera was first publicly performed at the Opéra-Comique on 19th May, 1911 in a double-bill with Massenet's "Therese. One contemporary critic panned it as a "pornographic vaudeville" (Gaston Carrud in La Liberté), but A.E.F. Dickinson has described it as a "song in praise of the human body."
Ravel, Maurice. (1875-1937). L'Heure Espagnole. Comédie Musicale. Fantaise pour Piano par Léon Roques. . Paris: Durand. After 1912. First edition. First edition of this arrangement for piano. [PN] 8489. Title; 1-11. Original brown wrappers, reinforced at spine. In very good condition.
The one-act opera was first publicly performed at the Opéra-Comique on 19th May, 1911 in a double-bill with Massenet's "Therese. One contemporary critic panned it as a "pornographic vaudeville" (Gaston Carrud in La Liberté), but A.E.F. Dickinson has described it as a "song in praise of the human body."
The one-act opera was first publicly performed at the Opéra-Comique on 19th May, 1911 in a double-bill with Massenet's "Therese. One contemporary critic panned it as a "pornographic vaudeville" (Gaston Carrud in La Liberté), but A.E.F. Dickinson has described it as a "song in praise of the human body."