PAVLOVA, Anna.
Collection of four music scores.
Collection of four music scores.
Stock Code 121263
1910s-1920s.
The four volumes comprise:
- Piano section for 'Faust', heavily annotated by the dancer in red and blue pencil. Pavlova frequently included the Walpurgisnacht ballet sequence from Charles Gounod's opera Faust in her global tour repertoires during the 1910s and this score bears the stamp of the Boston Opera Co.
- Conductor section for Gounod's 'Faust' featuring a label to upper pastedown stating it is 'property of Anna Pavlova' with a full list of the orchestra instruments and filled in by hand and with a later manuscript ownership inscription, 'B Toporkoff 2. VII. 1930'. Some manuscript annotations, possibly in two hands with Pavlova in blue pencil and another hand in graphite.
- 'Orfeo ed Euridice' by Christoph Gluck, printed in Milan by G. Ricordi, with the original wrapper bound in. This score has brown paper section markers numbered in ink glued in, presumably by Pavlova. Pavlova interpreted mytholigical scenes from Gluck's 1762 opera in her solo international tours.
- Unpublished manuscript piano section for Cherepnin's 1921 ballet 'Dinoysius' (also titled 'Bacchus'), annotated by multiple hands, presumably Pavlova and Cherepnin. Pavlova commissioned Cherepnin to compose the ballet and it was performed at Covent Garden in 1922 with excerpts of his famous 1907 romantic ballet, Le Pavillion d'Armide.
4 vols, comprising: two scores for the ballet 'Faust', one for 'Orfeo' and one for 'Dinoysius' (which is entirely in manuscript), annotations throughout, some tears and extensive repairs to the 'Faust' piano section; all four volumes bound in contemporary cloth with titles and 'Anna Pavlova' stamped in gilt to the upper covers.
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