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Valse favorite de La péri
- Title
- Valse favorite de La péri [graphic] / musique de Frc. Bürgmuller ; [illustration] on stone by R.P.C.
- Publication
- London : R. Cocks ; Paris : Colombier ; Mayence : Schott & Sons, [1843?]
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- Additional Authors
- Burgmüller, Friedrich, 1806-1874.
- Description
- 1 print : lithograph, b&w; 34 x 25 cm. +
- Summary
- Sheet music cover illustration depicting a scene from Jean Coralli's ballet La péri. Four women dance before a man who reclines on a divan. Behind the quartet, another woman emerges from a tentlike skirt surmounted by three women seen from the waist up. A man in a tall headdress, possibly a servant, stands at right. The room is lavishly decorated with architectural elements in the Mughal style, and contains several vases of flowers.
- Alternative Title
- Introduction et valse de La peri.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sheet music covers.
- Lithographs.
- Note
- Caption title.
- Pl. no. : 5755.
- Indexed In (note)
- Chaffee, George, "The Romantic ballet in London: 1821-1858, some hitherto unremarked aspects," Dance index
- Source (note)
- Lillian Moore.
- Biography (note)
- La péri (choreography, Jean Coralli; music, Friedrich Burgmüller; scenario, Théophile Gautier and Jean Coralli) was first presented at the Paris Opéra in 1843. This print probably depicts a moment from Act I, in which the hero Achmet (danced by Lucien Petipa) is entertained by the dancing of the women of the harem.
- Call Number
- *MGZFX Peri 1
- OCLC
- 825074314
- Title
- Valse favorite de La péri [graphic] / musique de Frc. Bürgmuller ; [illustration] on stone by R.P.C.
- Imprint
- London : R. Cocks ; Paris : Colombier ; Mayence : Schott & Sons, [1843?]
- Indexed In:
- Chaffee, George, "The Romantic ballet in London: 1821-1858, some hitherto unremarked aspects," Dance index, vol. II, nos. 9-12, Sept.-Dec. 1943, p. 166, 184, plate XXIV, cat. no. 98.
- Biography
- La péri (choreography, Jean Coralli; music, Friedrich Burgmüller; scenario, Théophile Gautier and Jean Coralli) was first presented at the Paris Opéra in 1843. This print probably depicts a moment from Act I, in which the hero Achmet (danced by Lucien Petipa) is entertained by the dancing of the women of the harem.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.For a music cover illustration that reverses the image in this print, see: *MGZFX Peri 2.
- Source
- Gift; Lillian Moore.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Burgmüller, Friedrich, 1806-1874. ComposerMoore, Lillian. Donor
- Publisher No.
- 5755 : R. Cocks
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFX Peri 1