c1870 Margarethe (Faust) Oper in Funf Akten

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Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

German. New revised edition, with Italian text. A grand opera in five acts to a French libretto from the play Faust et Marguerite by Michel Carre, which was in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One. The piece follows Faust, an aging scholar, who determines that his studies have come to nothing and have only caused him to miss out on life and love. Written by Paul Jules Barbier, a French poet, writer and opera librettist, and Michel Carre, a prolific French librettist, who often collaborated with each other. With the music by Charles-Francois Gounod, usually known as Charles Gounod, a French composer noted for church music and popular short pieces including his "Ave Maria" (an elaboration of a Bach piece) and "Funeral March of a Marionette". Previously held in the library of Felix Hubel, a German entrepreneur, publisher, writer, translator, and collector. Dated from the Royal Academy of Music Library.