Alain BANCQUART (born 1934). Autograph music manuscript, L'Amant déserté (instrumental version), [1978]; title and 19 leaves 32.5 x 44 cm. Instrumental version of the opera-theatre L'Amant déserté. This "opera-theatre" on a libretto by Marie-Claire Bancquart and Pierre Dalle Nogare was premiered by Sigune von Osten, Marie-Claude Vallin and Pierre Rousseau, and the ensemble l'Itinéraire, under the direction of the composer, at the Metz Festival in 1978. The present instrumental version was recorded by the Ensemble d'instruments électroniques de l'Itinéraire (Tristan Murail, Claude Pavy, Françoise Bousch, Françoise Pellié) under the direction of Alain Bancquart (disc Sappho 001, collection " Musique française d'aujourd'hui "). The instrumental ensemble includes 2 electric guitars, 2 ondes Martenot, 2 electric organs and synthesizers. This version lasts 22 minutes, and "summarizes the framework of the work", as indicated in a typed text at the head of the score, in three parts: I Prelude "Announcement of what will be the drama" (p. 1-9), II Strophes "Attempt at love success" (p. 10-15), III Death of the double "Impossible love" (p. 16-19) The manuscript is carefully written in Indian ink on oblong tracing paper with 20 lines.