Ludwig Minkus and Léo Delibes La source : fantastic ballet in three acts and four scenes - Minkus, Ludwig 1826-1917 (Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010)
Piano score. - Historical introduction and synopsis preceding music. - At head of title: Ludwig Minkus and Léo Delibes
TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ACT 1 [LUDWIG MINKUS]; ACT 2 [LEO DELIBES]; ACT 3 (1st TABLEAU) [LEO DELIBES]; ACT 3 (2nd TABLEAU) [LUDWIG MINKUS]
This volume reproduces the piano score of the ballet La Source, a joint composition by Ludwig Minkus and Léo Delibes. After the success of Néméa (1864), the Paris Opéra ordered a new grand ballet from the famous choreographer Arthur Saint-Léon to a libretto based on a Persian legend by Charles Nuitter. Saint-Léon 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 ..