La bohème : comédie lyrique en 4 actes. Chanson de Mimi "Musette sait mille chansons joyeuses" / paroles et musique de R. Leoncavallo.

Record ID: 
421920
Accession number: 
PMC 2307
Creator: 
Leoncavallo, Ruggiero, 1858-1919, composer, librettist.
Biographical Data: 
Italian composer.
Title: 
La bohème : comédie lyrique en 4 actes. Chanson de Mimi "Musette sait mille chansons joyeuses" / paroles et musique de R. Leoncavallo.
Uniform title: 
Bohème. Musette svaria sulla bocca viva. Vocal score. French
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund, 2017.
Edition: 

No 2, Mezzo-Soprano

Notes: 

Opera excerpt; for mezzo-soprano with orchestral accompaniment arranged for piano.
Caption title.
Lithographed wrapper, a portrait of the character Mimi, printed on yellow background, signed "E. Buval".
"Copyright by Edoardo Sonzogno, 1897"--Title page.
Title page contains additional lithographs of Musette and of Mimi by Buval, as well as listing of other excerpts from Leoncavallo's Bohème and other works. At top: Théâtre lyrique.
Advertisements on verso of page 5.

Associated names: 

Buval, E., active 1880-1903, illustrator.
Crosti, Eugène, 1833-1908, translator.
Murger, Henri, 1822-1861. Scènes de la vie de Bohème.