This volume reproduces the piano score of the ballet La Source, a joint composition by Ludwig Minkus and LA©o Delibes. After the success of NA©mA©a (1864), the Paris OpA©ra ordered a new grand ballet from the famous choreographer Arthur Saint-LA©on to a libretto based on a Persian legend by Charles Nuitter. Saint-LA©on involved his musical collaborator in St Petersburg, Ludwig Minkus, in the project, securing for him a hand in the composition of the first and fourth scenes of the of this new work, La Source, a fantastic ballet in three acts. The composition of the other two scenes (the second and third) were entrusted to the young, unknown LA©o Delibes, thirty at the time, who had drawn favourable attention to himself in the preparation of the ballet music for the premiA?re of Meyerbeer s posthumous L Africaine in 1865. The first performance of La Source was on 12 November 1866 at the ThA©atre ImpA©rial de l OpA©ra, with the principal dancers Guglielmina Salvioni (Naila), EugA©nie...

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