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Description: | Georg Jacobi (1840-1906) was a violinist by training and won the premier prix for violin at the Paris Conservatoire. He also studied composition with Reber, Gevaert and Cheri. He became conductor at the Bouffes-Parisiens in 1869, directing many Offenbach performances and composing some operettas. On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War he was engaged as conductor for the 1871-2 season at the Alhambra in London and remained for 26 years, composing 103 ballets and divertissements. The Alhambra ballet did much to revive interest in ballet in London during this period, paving the way for the Diaghilev Ballet.
The collection contains 63 of Jacobi's ballet and opera scores, together with two incidental music scores for Irving at the Lyceum (Robespierre and The Dead Heart).
Some ballet scores contain details of the action and a few diagrams or photographs.
The scrapbook covers Jacobi's career from 1854 to 1882.
Archive reference number: THM/140. (54 boxes) | Format: | Music scores Scrapbooks | Subjects: | Henri 1828-1908 1807-1880 Royal Alhambra Theatre (London England) Gevaert Lyceum Theatre (London Bouffes-Parisiens Jacques Reber F. A. (Francois Auguste) Offenbach 1819-1880 Ballets - Scores; Ballets - Excerpts - Scores; Operas - Scores; Operas - Excerpts - Scores; | Temporal: | 19th century 1854-1896 | Source: | Backstage | Address: | Blythe House, 23 Blythe Road, London,
W14 0QX | Creator: | Jacobi, G., 1840-1906 | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Language: | en | Format: | Music scores Scrapbooks | Go to resource |
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