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Romance sans paroles

[musical score]

49 bars

piano solo

Composition: This belongs with a collection probably composed in 1851–52, at the age of twelve or thirteen. Bizet won a first prize in solfège in July 1849.

Autograph score: F-Pn MS. 421, gift of Reynaldo Hahn. 16 f., 12-stave paper, oblong, 232 x 307 mm. Cover:

The Romance sans paroles is on p. 12–14 of the manuscript. The manuscript also contains Prélude en sol, Prélude en mi mineur, Prélude en ut, Prélude en la mineur, Valse, Thème, 1er Caprice original, Romance, and 2me Caprice original.

Printed score:

1

Mario Bois, Œuvres pour le piano, 1984, edited by Michel Poupet, p. 25–28.

Discography:

Par Setrak, 1985

Bibliography:

Dean 146, 246, 264
Lacombe 91, 93

Jean Chantavoine, ‘Quelques inédits de Georges Bizet’, Le Ménestrel, 4-8-1933.