138

Marine

[musical score]
90 bars
piano solo

Composition: 1868, before publication by Hartmann. The piano works of 1868 may have been inspired by Élie Delaborde’s playing, according to Galabert. The original title page suggests that Bizet had visited Ischia during his time in Naples in 1859.

Autograph score: F-Pn MS 456, Malherbe bequest. 12-stave paper, oblong, 262 x 348 mm., 3 f. (title page, 4 p. of music, blank).

Printed scores:
1
pl. no.:

G.H. 235

pages:

title page, blank, 1–5, blank

date:

12-1868

ann.: Bibliographie de la France, 19-12-1868
copies:

F-Pn L.13861

F-Pn Ac.p.1833 (dépôt légal 1868)

F-Pn Vm12 3372

GB-Cu

GB-Lbl h.3349(5) (stamped 16-12-1868)

2

Choudens père et fils, 265 rue St Honoré, no. A.C. 5473, 5 p., 1882. Copies: F-Pn Ac.p.1861, F-Pn Vm12 3373, F-Pn Fol Vm12 292, GB-En. Reissued from later addresses. IMSLP.

3

Choudens, in Classe supérieure du piano, 2e volume, 1886, p. 61–66.


Dedicatee: Originally Élie-Miriam-Éraïm Delaborde (1839–1913), natural son of C.-V. Alkan, and himself also a virtuoso pianist. Eventually Comtesse Alton-Shée, a pianist and teacher, wife of Comte d’Alton-Shée de Lignères, one of the founders of the Jockey Club.

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