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Additional authors

1. Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 1897-1957
2. Baker, Herbert, 1920-

Description

1. 1 ms. vocal score (ca. 500 leaves); 44 cm. or smaller.

Uniform title

1. Belle Hélène. (Helen goes to Troy). English

Alternative title

1. Belle Hélène. (Helen goes to Troy).
2. Belle Hélène.
3. Schöne Helena.

Subject

1. Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 1897-1957 > Manuscripts
2. Operas > Scores

Call number

1. JPB 85-33

Note

1. Chiefly arranger's holograph in pencil.
2. Operetta adapted by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
3. Title from accompanying snippet from spine of discarded container.
4. Interspersed are photocopies of manuscript leaves, with emendations in pencil, from the score of Die schöne Helena (an earlier adaptation by Korngold of La belle Hélène) and pages from the published score of Die schöne Helena (Berlin : Ed. Bote & G. Bock, c1931).
5. Lyrics by Herbert Baker. Cf. Songs of the American theater / Richard Lewine and Alfred Simon.
6. Chiefly English words ; German and French words on the photocopied leaves.
7. Accompanied by letter authenticating Korngold's handwriting, from Brendon Carroll, The Erich Wolfgang Korngold Society, 1984 Aug. 23 ([1] leaf, photocopy of typescript).
8. Helen goes to Troy opened at the Alvin Theatre in New York City on April 24, 1944 (information from IBDB.com).

Author

1. Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880.

Title

1. Helen goes to Troy / [Jacques Offenbach].

Imprint

1. [1944?]

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Added author

1. Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 1897-1957, arranger of music.
2. Baker, Herbert, 1920-

Added title

1. Belle Hélène.
2. Schöne Helena.

Research call number

1. JPB 85-33