Composition:May 1855, perhaps written as
an exercise for the preliminary concours of the Prix de Rome. The subject was supplied by
Halévy.
Autograph score:
1
S-Smf
MMS 320. 20-stave paper, 217 x 291 mm., 2 f.
added later: à mon ami David
souvenir de classe G. Bizet music headed: sujet de Monsieur
Halévy in pencil in another hand: Mai
1855 Georges Bizet
Bibliography:
Wright 39, 68
Lacombe 113
Lesley Wright, 'Bizet et le prix de Rome : de
l'initiation à l'accomplissement', Le Concours du prix de
Rome de musique (1803-1968)
(Lyon
2011), p. 529-548.
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