Ópera y Teatro musical

Mis dos mujeres

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Francisco Asenjo Barbieri was born in Madrid on 3 August 1823 and died in the same city on 17 February 1894. Considered a very prestigious figure during his time, he was a composer, conductor, music critic, poet, writer, philologist, musicologist, impresario, bibliophile and organologist. He was endowed with a thorough intellectual preparation, which made him one of the most influential personalities of the nineteenth century in Spain. Responsible for the reformation of Spanish musical theatre, he also re-wrote Spanish music history and was behind its nationalist ideology. Barbieri was undoubtedly one of the greatest composers in the history of Spanish music.

The composer   In the introduction to volume one of the Legado Barbieri, Emilio Casares noted: “In Spain it is difficult to encounter such an interesting and complex personality as…

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E. Casares Rodicio: Francisco Asenjo Barbieri. Biografías y Documentos sobre Música y Músicos Españoles, (Legado Barbieri), Vol. 1, Madrid, Fundación Banco Exterior, 1986, p. XXIX.

M. Ossorio Bernard: Ensayo de un catálogo de periodistas Españoles del siglo XX, por…, Madrid, Imp. de J. Palacios, 1903.

María Encina Cortizo: “La restauración de la zarzuela en el Madrid del XIX (1832-1856)”, Ph. D. Thesis, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1993, vol. 4, pp. 949-979.

“Teatro de la Zarzuela”, La Correspondencia Musical, Año I, no. 46, 16-XI-1881, p. 5.

M. E. Cortizo, op. cit., p. 974.

This text is found in the two scores referred to as numbers 1 and 2.

At the end of manuscripts 1 and 2, Barbieri notes: “In this number it is advisable to augment the female choir with 16 or 18 girls aged between 10 and 14 who know how to use solfeggio. This has been done at the Teatro del Circo, producing the effect the composer’s intended. As this piece is a Solfeggio, it should sound like children’s voice, otherwise this effect will not be achieved. Barbieri”.

Peña y Goñi: La ópera española y la música dramática en España en el siglo XIX, Madrid, Imp. y Estreotipia de El Liberal, 1881, p. 420.

See their correspondence in E. Casares Rodicio: Francisco Asnejo Barbieri. Documentos sobre música española y epistolario, (Legado Barbieri), vol. 2, Madrid, Fundación Banco Exterior, 1988, pp. 783-812. Their correspondence includes 50 letters and Olona’s will, which is also conserved among Barbieri’s papers.

Legado Barbieri, Ms. 14. 077. Published in E. Casares Rodicio: Francisco Asenjo Barbieri. 2. Escritos, Madrid, ICCMU, 1994, p. 26.

La Zarzuela, 18-II-1856, Año I, no. 3, p. 23.

Legado Barberi, Ms. 14. 077. Published in E. Casares Rodicio: Francisco Asenjo Barbieri. 2. Escritos…, p. 53.

Francisco Asenjo Barbieri. Documentos sobre música española y epistolario…, p. 794, letter 2309.

Hand-written dedication from the libretto to Mis dos mujeres, BN T. 26.665.

Mis dos mujeres, Madrid, Imp. de F. Martínez García, 1864, p. 5.

E. Cotarelo y Mori: Historia de la zarzuela o sea el Drama lírico en España desde su origen a fines del siglo XIX, Facs. ed. E. Casares Rodicio, Madrid, ICCMU, 2000, p. 497.

R.: “Teatro del Circo. Mis dos mujeres, zarzuela en tres actos, libreto de D. L. Olona partición de D. F. A. Barbieri”, Gazeta Musical de Madrid, I, no. 9, 1-IV-1855, pp. 65-66.

“Mis dos mujeres” in E. Casares Rodicio (ed.): Diccionario de la Zarzuela. España e Hispanoamérica, vol. 2, Madrid, ICCMU, 2003.

Mis dos mujeres, Biblioteca Nacional, T 26.665.

La España Artística, 28-XII-1857, no. 9.

Francisco Asenjo Barbieri. Documentos sobre…, p. 802, letter 2322.

Ibid, letter 2320.

Mis dos mujeres, zarzuela by mtro. Barbieri; easy fantasia without octaves for piano by G. Aris, Madrid, Pablo Martín, 1877; Flores españolas, very simple fantasias on motives from the best zarzuelas for piano by G. Arias; Mis dos mujeres, “Lección de solfeo”, arranged for flute, violin or clarinet, Madrid, Casimiro Martín, 1857.

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