Mademoiselle Fifi (Cui, César)

		Movements/Sections 1 act Composition Year 1902–03 Genre Categories Operas; Stage Works; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Russian language

Sheet Music

• Full Scores (1)
• Vocal Scores (5)

Full Scores

 Complete Score (including preliminaries)
*#23515 - 16.02MB, 147 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 170x⇩

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Lyle Neff (2008/10/25)

Publisher Info.:

Moscow: P. Jurgenson, n.d. (1903). Plate 28602

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

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Vocal Scores

Russian

 Title pages and preliminaries
*#15100 - 0.71MB, 3 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 97x⇩

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 Part 1 of 4
*#15103 - 4.57MB, 21 (#5-25) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 119x⇩

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 Part 2 of 4
*#15104 - 4.52MB, 22 (#26-47) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 82x⇩

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 Part 3 of 4
*#15105 - 3.59MB, 16 (#48-63) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 88x⇩

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 Part 4 of 4
*#15107 - 3.79MB, 18 (#64-81) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 84x⇩

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Publisher Info.:

Moscow: P. Jurgenson, n.d.(1903). Plate 28602

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Free Recordings

• Piano solo from piano-vocal score (Lyle Neff, pianist)

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General Information

Work Title	Mademoiselle Fifi
Alternative Title	Мадмуазель Фифи ; Женщина из Руана (from a Moscow performance of 1924)

Composer	Cui, César
Movements/Sections	1 act
Year/Date of Composition	1902–03
First Performance	Moscow, Hermitage Theatre, 17 November 1903
First Publication	1903
Librettist	Composer, after Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) and Oscar Méténier (1859–1913)
Language	Russian
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	voices with orchestra

Misc. Comments

• The music for this opera alludes also to the German patriotic song "Die Wacht am Rhein"

Publication History

This work was published by Jurgenson in full score, piano-vocal score, and a (flawed) piano-solo arrangment (by another hand).
In addition, Jurgenson published some passages as separate numbers:

• 1. Arioso of the Abbé: "Мне бог судил"
  
• 2. Little Song of the Captain: "Дорогой размытой"
  
• 3. Quartet: "Полной чашей" (adapted from Marschner's Soldatenbuch)*
  
• 4. Little Song of Amanda: "Как я шла через поляну" (adapted from Tiersot's book of songs from the Metz region)
  
• 5. Song of Rachel: "Дом разрушен"

External Links

• Wikipedia article

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Operas by César Cui
Neuhausen Castle (1859, unfinished) Prisoner of the Caucasus (1857–58, rev. 1881–82, 1885) The Mandarin's Son (1859) William Ratcliff (1861–68) Mlada (1872, Act I only) Angelo (1871–75) Le flibustier (1888–89) The Saracen (1896–98) Feast in Time of Plague (1899~1900?)	Undina (1900–04?, unfinished) Mademoiselle Fifi (1902–03) The Snow Bogatyr (1905) Mateo Falcone (1906–07) The Captain's Daughter (1907–09) Little Red Riding-Hood (1911) Ivan the Fool (1913) Puss-in-Boots (1913)