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Barcarolle

mélodie sans paroles

[musical score]
79 bars
two sopranos, piano

Composition: February–March 1850, from Bizet’s stated age. The same manuscript includes the Vocalise and a fragment of an unnamed cantata.

Autograph score: F-Pn MS 422, gift of Reynaldo Hahn. 12-stave paper, oblong 233 x 300 mm., 6 f. (title page, blank, 10 p. of music). The Barcarolle is on p. 4-9 also numbered 1-6. Facsimile of p. 4 in Lacombe, p. 94.
The manuscript also includes the Vocalise and part of a Cantate à une voix. Facsimile of p. 4 in Lacombe, p. 94.
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