OFFENBACH JACQUES: (1819-1880)

OFFENBACH JACQUES: (1819-1880) German-born French Composer. Autograph Musical Manuscript, unsigned, two pages, oblong 4to, n.p., n.d, with annotations in French. The manuscript comprises two sketches in Offenbach´s hand. To the front page Offenbach has carefully penned twenty bars on five staves, and to the verso five additional bars on two staves, all of them with the text corresponding to the music written below each stave in Offenbach´s hand, saying in part `Sweet evening breeze…your touching and harmonious chords, from earth and heaven…´ Irregularly torn with small tear to the right edge, not affecting the text and quote. Small overall staining and folds, about G £500-800 According to Jacques Brindejont-Offenbach´s biography Offenbach, my Grandfather (1938), the present work Douce Brise du Soir is an unedited vocal duo.