T50

Massenet, Scènes hongroises

  • 1 Entrée en forme de danse
  • 2 Intermède
  • 3 Adieux de la fiancée
  • 4 Cortège, Bénédiction nuptiale, et Sortie de l’église

piano solo
Original work: Jules Massenet (1842–1912), Scènes hongroises, originally for piano duet, then arranged for orchestra and first performed on 26-11-1871, but not published by Hartmann in score until 1881, pl. no. G.H. 1133. The work was dedicated to Bizet. The title page of the full score advertised another solo piano arrangement by Renaud de Vilbac, and in 1886 Hartmann published yet another version by L. Filliaux-Tiger (pl. no. G.H. 1572). The piano duet version was performed by Massenet and Bizet on 9-12-1871 at a concert of the Société Nationale de Musique.
Transcription: probably c. 1871–72, at the same time as the Scènes de bal, for publication by Hartmann.
Autograph score: F-Pn MS 452(1), Malherbe bequest. 30-stave paper, 10 f., written on rectos only, with many drafts and erasures, headed:
Bizet inserted titles at the head of each piece (changing Adieux à la fiancée to Adieux de la fiancée, as in Filliaux-Tiger’s version). No. 3 lacks Massenet’s first three bars (as in Massenet’s autograph) and lacks the last 23 bars. The manuscript is prepared for printing.

On f. 5v there is a 50-bar sketch in 2/4 in F major. The melody is later treated as a three-part canon at two-bar intervals.
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On f. 6v is a 39-bar sketch of a chorus in F ‘Pour cueillir le vermillon’ leading into the three-part canon sketched as on f. 5v. This was intended for the beginning of Act II of L'Arlésienne.
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Printed scores:
1

Hartmann, pl. no. 841, 27 p., 1875. Announced on the title page of the full score (1881) @ 5 fr. and Hartmann Catalogue (after 1882) @ 5 fr. No copy seen.

2

Heugel, pl. no. H. & Cie 22674 on the first and last pages, G.H. 841 elsewhere, 27 p., c. 1906. Copy: US-Wc M35.M (gift of Mina Curtiss).

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