2049 - 2129 MUSIC and PERFORMING ARTS
- Closed tear in title-p.; contents otherwise good/ fine. Binding worn/ rubbed along extremities.
= RISM G 2642 (5th edition). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIII.
- Final free endpaper and pastedown w. sm. wormhole in inner margin. Otherwise fine.
= Olivier 2549 identifies the coat of arms on the binding as that of M.-J.-L-B. Comtesse de Savoie. The opera Echo et Narcisse was one of the less succesfull operas by Glück. At its première in Paris, the response was so lacklustre that Glück never went back to Paris. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.
- Contents very fine. Binding worn/ rubbed along extremities. = RISM H 740.
- Publisher's address partly illegible due to removal of later added publisher's ticket (leaving only the Lyon address legible); contemp. manuscript index bound in at front; publisher's stamp in lower blank margin of portrait. A few unobtrusive small and slightly rubbed spots on binding. Very fine copy.
= Rare early edition of the full score, publ. in the same year as the first edition. Hoboken II, XXI, 2a (pointing out that the date "le 3. Nivose an 9e" on the title-p. should be read as 1800 in the Vienna Style of dating and not as 1801) and noting that this edition does not contain the final choral. These final 83 bars are supplied in contemp. fair manuscript in our copy. The final engraved leaves are the scores for the trombone (3p.) and the bassoon (4p.) to several parts of the oratorio. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIII.
- Rebacked w. cloth and w. later backcover. = RISM H 4692; Hoboken II, p.59f.
- Binding (sl.) worn along extremities. = Hob. XXI/ 2 p.42.; RISM H4652.
AND 1 other: J.G. BERTELMAN, Missa (The Hague, Fr. Beuster, 1836, entirely engr. full score, with piano score, contemp. giltlettered hcalf, obl. 4to. Joints and corner rubbed, otherwise fine).
- All plates (sl.) foxed. Backstrip chafed/ worn.
= "Extracted from the Encyclopaedia Londinensis" (title-p.).
- Several prints with (repaired) (sm.) damage in margins/ corners; one print w. closed hole; all prints w. pinholes and sl. yellowed.
= Nice caricatures of a conductor, bassoonist, hornist, oboist, flutist, trumpetist, violinist, cellist, bassist, timpanist, guitarist and harpist.
- Copy for the horn with receding stain on first 8 leaves; copy for the cello w. similar stain on final 4 leaves. Otherwise fine.
= Brüchle/ Lienhard, Horn Bibliographie III, p.111.
AND 3 others, i.a. H. NIESSEL, Méthode complète de cor à 3 pistons ou Cylindres. Op.21 (Paris, Schonenberger, n.d. (±1843), plate no. S 1490, lithogr. title-p. and score, modern cl., folio. Sl. foxed; contemp. owner's entry on title-p. Rare) and L. VAN BEETHOVEN, Gran Quintuor en Mi b Maj. (Offenbach/ London, ±1840, tinted lithogr. title, lithogr. full score, contemp. hcl., 4to).
- Apart from some sl. foxing, a very fine set.
Symphonia. Lektuur van Muzijkale Wetenschappen. Year 1, January-June. Ed. C.L. van Langenhuijsen and T. Geers Jz. Amst., n.publ., 1839, 208p., woodengr. ills., music examples, contemp. marbled boards, 4to.
- Sl. foxed.
= All published. Rare and shortlived periodical about which J. VAN GESSEL writes i.a. that it is "(...) de meest mysterieuze verschijning onder de eerste Nederlandse muziektijdschiften. (...) Het tijdschrift is (...) opgezet als een verzameling lemma's over uiteenlopende onderwerpen (...). In maart begon men tevens met een alfabetisch lexicon van beroemde componisten, dat echter niet verder kwam dan de letter A. Verder bevatte Symphonia (...) nog wat losse anekdotes. (...)." (https://demodernetijd.nl/wp-content/uploads/DNE-2001-4a-Gessel.pdf).
= The letters all centre around the music festival ("Muzijkfeest te Haarlem") that was organized in 1850, and are addressed to i.a. C.G.V. Schneevoogt (the secretary of the Maatschappij) and J.J. Viotta, and are partly written by affiliated members of the Maatschappij that offer their help with the various arrangements concerning the festival. I.a. offering singers for the choir, concerns about the lack of urgency in preparing everything for the festival, the availability of scores for the musicians and singers (the most important part of the festival was the first performance in The Netherlands of Mendelssohn Bartoldy's oratorio "Elias" (composed only 4 years earlier). Also including 2 separate manuscript scores, i.a. one with a fair copy of the score of N. DALEYRAC's "Romance de Gulnare" (prob. a version for voice and guitar).
- Pages loose(ning). Rebacked w. cl.
= Contains ±50 songs, poems and short stories, i.a. Het Lied van Chassé, De Lusivers Jood, Henri's Drinklied, Het vogelnestje, De Smulbuik, Hernhutters-Avondlied, De Vleeschsoep, Het IJsvermaak, Het Pennelikkers Lied, Vijf maal Honderdduizend Duivels, De hopelooze Vrijer and De neger in de suikerplantaadje.
- Bookplate on verso of 2nd blank. Apart from some rubbed spots along margins a very fine copy.
- Spine (sl.) dam. and bumped; upper right corner of frontwr. restored; frontwr. sl. creased.
- Sl. foxed almost throughout; bookblock broken (i.a. first three leaves, final 2 leaves and wrappers loose); traces of former tape (used to reattached these loose leaves). Lacks backstrip.
= RISM M 4191.
AND 3 others, i.a. two bound-up vols. of 13/ 14 (collections of) songs, all for voice with piano or guitar (±1801-1830, in contemp. almost unif. hmor. w. giltlettered ("Ida"/ "Unna") lozenge-shaped mor. letterpiece on frontcover, obl. 4to).
= The latter 2 vols. contain i.a. .J. HAYDN, Lieblings-Gesänge aus Haydn's Jahrzeiten (Offenbach a.M., J. André, n.d. (±1801), plate no. 1640, lithogr. title-p. and score); L. VAN BEETHOVEN, Sechs Lieder von Gellert (Leipsic, C.F. Peters, n.d. (±1803), plate no.267, engr. score); L. SPOHR, Sechs Deutsche Lieder. Zweite/ Dritte/ Vierte Sammlung (Leipsic, C.F. Peters, n.d. (±1819), 3 vols., plate no. 1270, 1346 and 1940, engr. scores); J.B VAN BREE, Adolf by het graf van Maria (Amst., A.W. Rouwen, n.d. (±1830), plate no. 220, engr. score); W.J. TOMASCHEK, Gedichte von Goethe. Heft 7 and 9 (Prague, M. Berra, n.d. (±1815), plate no. 530 and 532, 2 vols., both w. ident. engr. title-vignette, engr. scores. Both w. vague waterstain in outer margin in the plate) and S. NEUKOMM, Trost in Tränen (Hamb./ Altona, Rudolphus/ Cranz, n.d. (±1820), without plate no., engr. title-p. and score).
- Lacks the facsimile called for on tiltle-p; sl. foxed; 2 lvs loose.
= Rare, no copy traced in the trade or at auction.
AND 1 other.
= Also incl. programs signed by various performers, i.a. Norman Bailey, Ingrid Bjoner, Helga Dernesch and Maria Stanley.
AND ±20 others similar, all concerning R. WAGNER and the WAGNERVEREENIGING, incl. various programs for the Bayreuther Festspiele, with i.a. 4 programs from the years 1959-1960 signed by various performers.
- Wrappers occas. loose and frayed.
= I.a. of Vereeniging "De Phoenix", Fritz Hirsch Operette, Nationale Opera, Nederlandsche Opera, Koninklijke Zangvereeniging "Excelsior", Amsterdamsch Lyrisch Tooneel, Opera Italiana, Vlaanderen's Opera Gids and Repertoire van Duitsche Opera-Teksten.