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FANCIES AND AYRES
1) ALGAZI, Léon: Chants Sephardis. Recueillis et notes par Léon Algazi. [London:
World Sephardi Federation, 1958]. Score: xvi, 63 pp., quarto. Publisher’s cloth with
dust-wrapper. £60
Published by the cultural department of the Federation.
2) [APOLLO] CLEMENTI, Muzio (1752-1832) and CRAMER, Johann Baptist
(1771-1858): Apollo‟s Gift, or the Musical Souvenir for MDCCCXXX. Edited by Muzio
Clementi and J.B. Cramer. London: Published by S. Chappell, [1829]. Score: 4 ff.
(frontispiece, title, contents), 93 pp., 5 ff. (facsimiles), quarto, engraved music. Half
leather, rather worn, front board detached, cloth covers stained. £150
Includes facsimiles of works by Mozart, Weber (first sketches for Oberon), Clementi,
Haydn (musical puzzle) and Beethoven (Andante). The music, in this particular volume
of an annual publication, includes piano works by Moscheles, Beethoven, Weber, Haydn,
Onslow, Hummel, Czerny, and vocal works by Cherubini, Mendelssohn, Panseron, C.E.
Horn and Barnett.
3) ARNOLD, Samuel (1740-1802): The Maid of the Mill A Comic Opera, As it is
Performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden for the Voice, Harpsichord, or Violin.
London: Printed and Sold by R. Bremner, [1765]. Vocal score: 1 f. (title), 75 pp., oblong
folio, engraved. Recent cloth. Excellent copy. £175
RISM A 2286 BUC p. 643. Hirsch M.1424. Text by Bickerstaffe.
4) BAILLOT, Pierre Marie François de Sales (1771-1842). L‟Art du Violon.
Nouvelle M thode, D di à ses Élèves par P. Baillot … Traduction allemande par J.D.
Anton. Mayence et Anvers: Chez les fils de B. Schott, [1834?]. Score: 2 ff. (title,
foreword), 279 pp., engraved, folio, plate number 4260, parallel text in German and
French. Half leather, little rubbed, with marbled boards and early manuscript paper label
to front cover, few of the central pages with a slight marginal brown staining to the outer
edges and upper outer corners of pp. 111-116 a little torn and creased, else a splendid
copy. £450
First German edition of the new edition. Not in Hirsch or BLIC.
5) BARNETT, John (1802-1890): The Mountain Sylph, A Grand Opera, In Two Acts,
as Performed at the New Theatre Royal English Opera House. Written by T.J.
Thackeray. Composed by John Barnett. London: Published and sold by Hawes, [1834].
Vocal score: 2 ff. (title, dedication to Samuel James Arnold), 206 pp., 1 f. (index), folio,
engraved, plate numbers 928-981. Quarter cloth, head and foot of backstrip worn, plain
boards, edges dented. £140
First edition.
6) BLOCH, Ernest (1880-1959): String Quartet No. 5. New York: Broude Brothers,
[1962]. Parts: 9, 9, 9, 8 pp., folio, plate number B.B.2001. Sewn, preserved in
publisher’s printed overall wrappers. £40
First edition. Thompson 64.
7) BONONCINI, Giovanni (1670-1747): Cantate e Duetti di Giovanni Bononcini.
Londra: 1721. Score: 1 f. (title), 99 pp., oblong folio, engraved. Sewn in limp marbled
wrappers, edges worn and blue paper backstrip mostly worn away. Lacking the list of
subscribers (if ever present with this copy). £575
RISM B 3601. BUC p. 122. Eighteenth-century sale price at head of title. Early
ownership signature of “Susanne Hartmann”. These works were dedicated to King
George I when first printed.
8) BONONCINI, Giovanni (1670-1747): A Favorite Song in the Opera of Astartus.
[„Amante e Sposa‟]. [London: s.n., 1720?]. Short score: [3] ff., folio, engraved. Folded
as issued, edges a little worn, with a separate sheet of an arrangement for the flute (a
sheet to be cut in two with “pagination” of 8 and 9. An interesting copy with extensive
additions of contemporary ornamentation and several extra bars of bass line added. £250
RISM B 3561 citing just two copies. BUC p. 62 (which gives “1710?”). Text by Paolo
Antonio Rolli. First performed in Rome in January 1715 the revised version was
performed at the King’s Theatre on 19th
November 1720.
9) BRUCKNER, Anton (1824-1896): Streichquartett, C-moll. [Wien:
Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag, [ca. 1955]. Parts: 10, 9, 10, 8 pp., folio. Folded as
issued, without overall wrappers. £35
10) BRUNEAU, Alfred (1857-1934): L‟Ouragan. Drame lyrique en quatre Actes.
Poème de Emile Zola. Musique de Alfred Bruneau. Partition Chant et Piano. Paris:
Choudens, 1901. Vocal score: 1 f. (title), iii (dedication to the composer’s wife, index),
307 pp., octavo, plate number A.C. 11806. Blue quarter cloth, marbled boards, edges a
little bumped, original printed pictorial front wrapper bound in. Some slight browning to
opening and final pages. £250
First edition. Inscribed and signed by the composer, on the verso of p. iii, “au Maître
Reyer”, the composer Ernest Reyer (1823-1909). First performed on 29th
April, 1901.
11) CHOPIN, Fryderyk Franciszek (1810-1849). Second Concerto Pour le Piano,
Avec Acct. d‟Orchestre, d di à Madame la Comtesse Delphine Potocka par Fr d.
Chopin, Op. 21. Paris: chez Maurice Schlesinger, [ca. 1851]. 1 f. (title), 35 pp.,
engraved, folio, plate number M.S.1940. Disbound, sewn, water-stained. Alfred Cortot’s
copy with his initial stamp. £245
First edition, later issue. Platzman2 p. 96. Brown no. 43. Chomiński and Turło no. 48.
Kobylańska p. 43. First performed by the composer on 17th
March 1830 it was actually
the first piano concerto he wrote but the second to be published.
12) COATES, Eric (1886-1957): Miniature Suite for Small Orchestra, Composed by
Eric Coates. Full Orchestral Score. London: Boosey & Co., 1911. Score: 2 ff., 67 pp.,
folio, plate number H.7234. Cloth, corners bumped and worn, most of backstrip missing,
hinges broken. Signed and inscribed by the composer “To Siegfried Wertheim, with all
good wishes from his old friend, Eric Coates” with a musical monogram following in alto
clef. A well used and thumbed copy, lower corner of pp. 37/38 missing with loss of two
notes, from the Goodwin & Tabb lending library. £120
The work was dedicated to Sir Henry Wood and first performed by him at the Queen’s
Hall with his orchestra. Coates played in this orchestra and was their principal viola from
1912.
13) DVORAK, Antonín (1841-1904). The Spectre‟s Bride [Svatebni košile]. A
Dramatic Cantata, written by K.J. Erber. The music composed for soli, chorus and
orchestra by Antonín Dvořák, Op. 69. The pianoforte accompaniment arranged by
Heinrich von Káan. The English version by the Rev. Dr. Troutbeck.. London & New
York: Novello, Ewer and Co., [1885]. Vocal score: viii, 193 pp., 8vo, Novello’s Original
Octavo Edition. Plain cloth, title-page a little dusty. £2,200
First edition. Burghauser no. 135. With the composer’s signature boldly at the head of
the title. Composed between May and November 1884, as a result of a commission from
the Birmingham Triennial Festival, the cantata was first performed at Plzeň on 28th
March 1885 and later on 27th
August in Birmingham with a huge choir. English
enthusiasm for Dvorak’s work also led to a commission from the Philharmonic Society
for a symphony, namely no. 7 in D minor in 1885 and St Ludmila for the Leeds Festival
in 1886 and later in 1891 his setting of the Requiem, again for the Birmingham Festival.
14) ECCLES, John (1668?-1735): A
Song in the Fate of Capua, Set by Mr.
John Eccles, Sung by Mrs
. Hodgson,
and exactly engrav‟d by Tho: Cross.
[„What Beauty is‟]. [London: s.n.,
1700]. Vocal score: single sheet folio,
engraved. Disbound. £150
RISM E 231 citing five copies. BUC
p. 307.
15) [FIFTEENTH CENTURY]: DROZ, Eugénie (1893-1976), and THIBAULT,
Geneviève (1902-1975: Poètes et Musiciens du XVe Siècle. Paris: 1924. Score with
piano reduction: 86 pp. + 14 plates, quarto. Publisher’s wrappers, edges a little worn and
creased, otherwise a superb copy uncut and unopened. £250
Documents artistiques du XVe Siècle, Tome I. Hirsch M.860. Includes works by
Machaut, des Molins, Binchois, Mureau, Hayne, Compère and Molinet, with commentary
at the end of the volume
16) FISCHER, Johann Christian (1733-1800): A Favourite Concerto for the
Harpsichord, Composed by Gio: Christiano Fischer. London: Printed by Welcker,
[1768]. Score: 9 pp., folio, engraved. Disbound, sewn. £95
RSM F990. BUC p. 337. An arrangement of the concerto in C major for oboe or flute.
17) GIORDANI, Tommaso (ca. 1733-1806): The Favorite Songs as Sung by Sigra
.
Sestini in the Comic Opera La Marchesa Giardiniera [by Anfossi], Composed by Sigr.
Giordani. London: Printed for the Author by Welcker, [1783]. Full score: 1 f. (title), 19
pp., folio, engraved. Disbound, sewn, some browning. £250
RISM G 2136. BUC p. 379.
18) GLAZUNOV, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936): 2me
Valse pour grand
Orchestre, composée par Alexandre Glazounow, Op. 51. Leipzig: M.P. Belaïeff, 1896.
Score: 55 pp., octavo, lithographed. Publisher’s wrappers, coloured decorative title-page,
creased. £90
First edition.
19) GLUCK, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787): Iphigenie en Tauride. Tragédie en
quatre Actes Par Mr. Guillard. Mise en musique & dédiée a La Reine par M. le Ch
er.
Gluck. A Paris: Chez Deslauriers, [between 1788-1792]. Full score: 2 ff. (title,
dedication, catalogue), 211 pp., folio, engraved. Quarter leather, rubbed, marbled boards,
corners bumped and back outer edge with small piece (1 cm) missing. £350
First edition, second issue. Hopkinson 46A(a). RISM G 2816. BUC p. 386.
20) GLUCK, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787): Iphigenie auf Tauris. Oper in 4 Akten
von Chr. W. von Gluck, in Partitur herausgegeben von Alfred Dörffel. Leipzig: C.F.
Peters, 1884. Full score: 4 ff. (titles, dedication, contents), 164 pp., folio, plate number
6758. Red cloth. £65
21) GOSS, John (1894-1953) (compiler): An Anthology of Song. Compiled and Edited
By John Goss. [London]: Oxford University Press, [1929]. Score: 4 ff., 169 pp., folio.
Publisher’s cloth, faded, head of backstrip and corners a little worn. £30
Includes songs from 16th
– 19th
centuries.
22) [GLUCK, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)]. GAND LEBLAND DU
ROULLET, Marie François Louis (1716-1786). Iphigénie en Aulide. Tragédie-Opera,
en Trois Actes, repr sent e, pour la première fois par l‟Acad mie-Royale de Musique, Le
Mardi 12 Avril 1774. A Paris: Chés Delormel, 1774. 63 pp., 8vo. Sewn in
contemporary marbled wrappers, worn and torn, a few corners a little curled and two
light brown spots to lower edge of title-leaf. £1,250
First edition for the first performance on 19th
April 1774. Fuld (librettos) pp. 148-149.
Sonneck p. 641. The librettist is not mentioned in the preliminaries, although the
introduction refers to Racine’s text, whereas the music is ascribed to Gluck on the verso
of the title. P. 3 comprises the list of actors and actresses in the choir, p. 4 the dramatis
personae with cast-list of soloists and p. 5 the list of dancers including the celebrated
Maximilien Gardel (1741-1781).
23) GRETRY, André-Ernest-Modeste (1741-1813): Oeuvre VIIe. Zemire et Azor.
Comédie-Ballet En Vers et en Quatre Actes. Représentée devant sa Majesté à
Fontainebleau le 9. Novembre 1771, et à la Comédie Italienne le 16. Decembre 1771.
Par M. Gretry. A Paris: Chès Houbaut, [1772?]. Full score: 1 f. (title), 216 pp., folio,
engraved. Polished half calf, corners worn, joints split, back cover detached, marbled
boards. £475
First edition. RISM G 4497. BUC p. 405. With ownership signature of William Crotch
(1775-1847) dated February 1836.
24) GRETRY, André-Ernest-Modeste (1741-1813). Mémoires ou Essai sur la
Musique Par M. Grétry, Censeur Royal, Conseiller intime de S.A.C. Monseigneur
l‟Évêque, Prince de Li ge; de l‟Acad mie des Philharmoniques de Bologne, de la Soci t
d‟Émulation de Li ge, &c. A Paris: Chez L’Auteur, Prault, Les Marchandes de
Nouveautés, Et à Liege, F.J. Desoer, 1789. 2 ff. (half-title and title), 565 pp., 1 f. (errata
leaf), + 2 plates (one a folding facsimile), 8vo. Contemporary polished quarter calf with
marbled boards, marbled edges, front hinge weak, joints worn and backstrip torn. With
royal privilege at the end. £350
RISM B/VI/I p. 379. Gregory p. 113. With a stippled engraving portrait frontispiece of
the composer. The earliest autobiography by a composer.
25) HALEVY, Jacques-François-Fromental (1799-1862): La Reine de Chypre.
Opéra en cinq actes. Paroles de M. de Saint-Georges. Musique de F. Halévy. Partition,
piano et chant, réduite par R. Wagner. Paris: Henry Lemoine, [ca. 1880]. Vocal score: 4
ff., 375 pp., quarto, plate number 7813HL. Quarter morocco, front joint splitting,
marbled boards. £75
26) HANDEL, George Frideric (1685-1759): Handel‟s Oratorium Der Messias im
Clavierauszuge von C.F.G. Schwencke, mit deutschem Texte von Klopstock und Ebeling.
Hamburg: bey Johann August Böhme, [1809]. Vocal score: 2 ff. (half-title, title), 166
pp., 1 f. (index), oblong folio, engraved. Half leather, corners very worn, marbled
boards. Some occasional browning, final four leaves of music damaged in the centre
with slight loss of text to the piano reduction. £175
27) HAYDN, Joseph (1732-1809): Sonate à quatre mains pour le Clavecin ou Piano
Forte, composée par Joseph Haydn, Oeuvre LXXXVI [Hob. I/97]. “à Leipsic: au
Magasin de Musique de Breitkopf & Härtel, [ca. 1808]. Score: 20 ff., oblong folio.
Sewn. Neat copyist’s manuscript, in ink, on 10-stave hand-drawn paper, watermarked
“C.D. Honig”. Inner edges of first and final leaf stained and browned. £150
Hoboken vol. I, pp. 197 and 810 cite Breitkopf’s edition first published in 1796 of the
piano duet arrangement of symphony no. 97 from which this manuscript, complete with
decorative title, was presumably copied.
28) [HAYES, William (1706-1777)] WARTON, Thomas (1728-1790): Ode for Music,
as performed at the Theatre in Oxford, On the Second of July, 1751. Being the
Anniversary appointed by The late Lord Crew, Bishop of Durham, For the
Commemoration of Benefactors to the University … By Tho. Warton. Set to Music by Dr.
Hayes, Professor of Music. The Second Edition. Oxford: Printed for R. Clements and J.
Barrett, 1751. Small quarto. As issued, outer folds worn and separated. £350
29) HEGAR, Friedrich (1841-1927): Hÿmne “An die Musik”. Gedicht von Helene
Herzogen von Orléans, für gemischten Chor & Orchester, componirt und seinem
verehrten Lehrer: Herrn Conzertmeister Ferdinand David, gewidmet von Friedrich
Hegar, Op: II. [S.l.: ca. 1870]. Full score: 1 f. (title), 47 pp., folio. Half cloth with
marbled boards. [?] Copyist’s neat manuscript, in black ink on 18-stave paper. A few
blue crayon performance and dynamic markings. £450
“Friedrich Hegar studied first in Basle and then from 1857 to 1859 at the Leipzig
Conservatory under Hauptmann, Rietz and David; during the same period he was a
violinist at the Gewandhaus. In 1860 he became the leading violinist of the Bilse
orchestra in Warsaw. After visiting Paris and London he returned to Basle, but in 1861
was appointed conductor of the choir and orchestra at Gebweiler in Alsace. A year later
Theodor Kirchner summoned him to Zürich; he settled there and contributed greatly to its
musical life for more than half a century. From 1862 to 1865 he was Konzertmeister of
the newly established orchestra, then becoming its conductor (until 1906). He also
directed various choirs: in 1863 that of the Aktientheater; from 1865 the Gemischter Chor
(until 1901) and the Stadtsängerverein (until 1867); from 1875 to 1878 the male choir
Harmonie; and from 1891 to 1896 the Lehrergesangverein. He helped to found the Zürich
Music School (which became the conservatory) and was later appointed director” (New
Grove2). The work is dedicated to one of his teachers, Ferdinand David (1810-1873).
Grove does not cite the location of his manuscripts and we have not identified whether
an autograph manuscript does exist; the work appears to have been printed in Offenbach
in 1873.
30) HOOK, James (1746-1827): Guida di Musica; being a Complete Book of
Instructions for Beginners on the Harpsichord or Piano Forte, Entirely on a new Plan,
calculated to save a great deal of time & trouble both to Master & Scholar to which is
added Twenty-Four Progressive-Lessons In various Keys with the Fingering marked
Throughout Composed by James Hook, Op. 37. [London]: Printed for J. Dale, [wm
1808]. Score: 24 pp., lacking p. 25, oblong folio. Half leather, some pages rather foxed,
pictorial title-page creased and outer edge infilled. Bookplate of Godfrey Arkwright.
£115
This imprint not in RISM or BLIC.
31) INDY, Vincent d’ (1851-1931): Sonate (en mi) pour Piano par Vincent d‟Indy (Op.
63). Paris: A. Durand & Fils, 1908. Score: 1 f. (title), 40 pp., folio, plate number D. & F.
6993. Folded as issued, title a little foxed, outer fold and upper edge slightly worn. £45
First edition. Dedicated to the pianist Blanche Selva (1884-1942).
32) IRELAND, John (1879-1962): Trio No. 2 in one movement for Piano, Violin &
Violoncello. London: Augener, [© 1918]. Score and parts: 20, 7, 7 pp., folio, plate
number 15219. Sewn in publisher’s printed wrappers. Printed in 1920. £30
33) JENKINS, John (1592-1678): Fancies and Ayres. Edited by Helen Joy Sleeper.
Wellesley [Massachusetts]: Wellesley College, 1950. Score: xvii, 117 pp., quarto. Spiral
bound in leatherette covers. £25
Wellesley Edition, no. 1.
34) JONES, Henry Festing: S‟il est un charmant gazon. Paroles de Victor Hugo (Les
chants du crepuscule). Musique de Henry Festing Jones. [France: ca. 1900]. Score and
part: 16, 4 ff., folio. Plain makeshift wrappers. Autograph manuscript in ink on different
12-stave papers (staves in a different hand), with autograph dedication “à Mademoiselle
Gabrielle Vaillant, Hommage de son très humble serviteur, H.F.J.”, some performance
pencil and ink markings. £150
Published in 1907 by Weekes & Co. as no. 7 of Nine Songs.
35) KAMMEL,
Antonìn (1730?-1787?):
A Second Sett of Six
Sonatas for two Violins &
a Bass, Humbly
Dedicated To his
Excellency Count Vincent
of Waldstein by Antonio
Kammell, Opera Terza.
London: Printed by
Longman and Broderip,
[ca. 1780]. Parts: each 1
f. (title), 13 pp., folio,
engraved. Disbound,
sewn, a couple of spots.
£225
RISM K 92 citing just
three copies. BUC p. 564
citing just one copy.
From the plates of
Welcker’s edition of
1769 with the imprint
visibly changed to the
new publisher’s name.
36) KIRMAIR, Friedrich Joseph (1770-1814): Deux Sonates pour Piano-Forté,
accompagn de Violon oblige et Basse ad libitum, compos es d‟après divers themes et
passages de l‟op ra: La flute magique A l‟usage des Amateurs par Kirmair, Oeuvre IX.
Seconde edition. A Offenbach s/M: chez Jean André, [ca. 1804]. Parts: 17, 6, 5 pp.,
folio, engraved, plate number 274. Sewn, outer folds with old paper tapes. £125
RISM K 648 citing just two copies of which one incomplete. Not in BLIC.
37) KROMMER, Franz Vinzenz (1759-
1831): Trois Quatuors pour deux Violons,
Alto et Violoncelle, composés par F.
Krommer, Oeuvre 48. A Offenbach s/M:
chez Jean André, [1805]. Parts: 18, 15, 13,
13 pp., folio, lithographed, plate number
2164. Folded as issued. Title of first violin
a little browned otherwise a superb set.
£175
First edition. RISM K2664 (citing no
copies in the UK). Constapel p. 157.
38) LECLAIR, Jean-Marie (1697-1764): Zwölf Sonaten für Violine und Generalbass
nebst einem Trio für Violine, Violoncell und Generalbass. 2. Buch der Sonaten, Paris
circa 1732. Mit einem ausgesetzten Generalbass herausgegeben von Rob. Eitner.
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1903. Score and parts: iv, [i], 118, 49, 3 pp., folio. Purple
embossed cloth. £40
Publikation aelterer praktischer und theoretischer Musikwerke, herausgegeben von der
Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Band XXVII.
39) LEVERIDGE, Richard
(1670-1758): A Song Sett and
Sung by Mr Leveridge at the
Theatre. [„Foolish Swain thy
Sighs forbear‟]. [London:
s.n., ca. 1720]. Vocal score:
single sheet folio. Disbound.
Inner edge a little worn and
reinforced with old sellotape
(slight loss to two clefs).
£90
RISM L2218. BUC p. 616.
40) MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Mozart‟s Original Trio for Violin,
Tenor and Bass: Respectfully Dedicated by Permission To His Royal Highness The
Prince of Wales by the Editors [KV 563]. London: Printed by Clementi, Banger, Collard,
Davis, & Collard, [ca. 1815]. Parts: 1 f. (title), 13, 13, 10 pp., folio, engraved, plate
number 2265. Disbound, final leaf of cello part browned. £120
This imprint not in RISM or BLIC.
41) MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791). Tre Quartetti per due Violini, Viola
e Basso del Sigr. Mozart, Opera [18] [i.e. KV 575, 589, 590]. In Vienna: presso Artaria
e Compagni, [1791]. Parts: 20, 19, 17, 17 pp., engraved, folio, plate number 361. Early
marbled wrappers with manuscript labels, preserved in cloth portfolio, some general light
browning and foxing. £2,200
First edition, fourth issue. RISM M 6169. BUC p. 709. Hirsch IV.155a. Köchel6 pp.
649, 673 and 675. Haberkamp p. 326. With the opus numbering added to the title in
manuscript, only Vienna in the imprint (without Mainz) and the plate number “360” on
pp. 4-7 of the first violin part. Traces of cracked plates and the re-engraved plates as
noted by Haberkamp.
42) [MOZART] DIODATI, Giuseppe Maria: Theatralische Abentheuer. Eine
komische Oper in zwei Aufzügen nach dem Italienischen. Aufgeführt auf dem
hochfürstlich Esterhazyschen Theater in Eisenstadt. Die Musik ist von Cimarosa und
Mozart. Eisenstadt: Gedruckt in der Fürstlichen Hofbuchdruckerey, 1807. Libretto: 72
pp., small octavo. Contemporary marbled wrappers, small hole at lower inner corner.
Discreet library stamp on p. 2. £250
OCLC cites just one copy.
43) NILSSON, Bo (b. 1937): Ein irrender Sohn. Textfragment von Gösta Oswald, für
altstimme, altflöte und Orchester. Partitur. [Wien]: Universal Edition, [1959]. Score: 3
f. (title, dedication, foreword), 10 pp., folio, plate number U.E.13055. Publisher’s
wrappers, front one creased. £45
First edition, first issue.
44) [NOVENA] Novena da protectora das Cousas Difficeis, e advogada contra os
terremotos a bemaventurada Santa Rita de Cassia, da Ordem dos Eremitas Calçados de
Santo Agostinho, Que se venera no Collegio do mesmo Santo na Cidade de Lisboa. Por
hom sue devoto. Lisboa: Na Offic. De Simao Thaddeo Ferreira, 1796. 59 pp., small
octavo. Contemporary marbled wrappers detached and worn, a little light water-staining
to outer margins. With chants. Not in OCLC. £600
45) PESCETTI, Giovanni Battista
(1704?-1766): The Favourite Songs in the
Opera Call‟d Demetrius, Compos‟d by
Sigr. Pescetti. London: Printed for and
sold by J. Walsh, [1737]. Score: 1 f.
(title), 20 pp., folio, engraved. Sewn as
issued in plain blue wrappers, with
manuscript titling as found on items from
the Mapledurham library. £575
First edition. RISM P1505. BUC p. 775.
Text by Metastasio. The opera was
revised for the King’s Theatre and first
performed there on 12th
February 1737.
46) PURCELL, Daniel (1664?-1717): A
Song in Amalsont Queen of the Goths,
Sung by Mrs
.Erwin, Set by Mr. Dan
l.
Purcell. [„In a Groves forsaken Shade‟].
[London: s.n., ca. 1700]. Vocal score:
single sheet folio. Disbound.
£175
RISM P5668 citing just three copies.
BUC p. 855.
47) RODE, Pierre (1774-1830): Quartetto per due Violini, Viola e Violoncello, compost
dal Sigr.P. Rode, Op: 11. à Vienna: presso Artaria e Comp., [1809]. Parts: 7, 5, 5, 5 pp.,
engraved, folio, plate number 2040. Sewn, cloth backstrips, preserved in early marbled
slipcase, one edge split and worn, decoratively cut paper label, early ownership signature
of Ignaz Pfeffer. £195
Sole edition. RISM P5668 citing just three copies. Weinmann (Artaria) p. 97.
48) ROLLA, Alessandro (1757-1841): Tre Duetti per Due Violini. Composti e
Dedicati Al Nobil Uuomo [sic] Il Sigr. Don Giulio Ottolini, Cavaliere della nuova
Cornoa Ferrea e Ciambellano di S.M.I. e R. da Alessandro Rolla … Op. 6ta
. de Duetti a
due Violini. Milano: Press il Negoziante di Musica Gio. Ricordi, [1816]. Parts: 22, 21
pp., folio, engraved, plate number 280. Sewn, first violin part in a plain blue wrapper.
£165
Sole edition. RISM R2026. Il Catalogo Ricordi, vol. I, p. 10.
49) SCHOBERT, Johann (ca. 1735-1767): Sinfonies pour le Clavecin Seul, Qui
peuvent se jouer avec Accompagnement de Violon et Cors de Chasse, dediées a
Mademoiselle de Moullaine par Mr. Schobert, Claveceniste [sic] de S.A.S. Monseigneur
Le Prince de Conty, Opera X. A Paris: Chez L’Auteur, [ca. 1765]. Keyboard part: 1 f.
(title), 27 pp., oblong folio, engraved. Marbled wrappers. Light water-stain across lower
outer corners throughout. Imprint pasted over with seller’s label of Melle
. Castagnery; p.
1 with catalogue of composer’s works up to Op. 17, listing the publishers stocking them
(Bruxelles, Francfort, Hambourg, Lyon, Londres, Nüremberg, Paris, Strasbourg and
Wienne). £225
RISM S1968. BUC p. 931.
50) SCHOENBERG, Arnold (1874-1951): II. Streichquartett, Op. 10. Neu revidiert
1921. [Wien]: Universal Edition, [1940]. Parts: 20, 19, 19, 19 pp., folio, plate number
U.E.2994a. Publisher’s overall wrappers. £25
51) SCHUBERT, Franz (1797-1828): Grand Quintette en Ut pour deux Violons, Alto et
deux Violoncelles, par François Schubert, Oeuv: 163 et Posthume [D 956]. Paris: S.
Richault, [1851?]. Parts: 19, 15, 15, 14, 15 pp., folio, engraved, plate number 7740.R.
Folded as issued, outer fold of first violin worn and chipped. With ownership signature
of John Ella and a few pencil and crayon markings. £180
52) SMETANA, Bedřich (1824-1884): Aus meinem Leben. Quartett für 2 Violinen,
Viola, Violoncell von B. Smetana. Neu revidirte Ausgabe. Leipzig: C.F. Peters, [ca.
1930]. Score: 33 pp., folio, plate number 7965. Half cloth with marbled boards. £30
53) SMETANA, Bedřich (1824-1884): Die verkaufte Braut (Prodana nevěsta).
Komische Oper in drei Akten. Leipzig: C.F. Peters, [1936]. Vocal score: 1 f. (title), 274
pp., quarto, plate number 13739. Publisher’s printed wrappers, head and foot of backstrip
a little worn, dusty. Title with red crayon markings and underlinings to the vocal line of
one aria. Edition Peters no. 4403; German text only. £20
54) SOLIVA, Carlo Evasio (1792-1851): Duetto e Terzetto, Federico mi ravvisa, Nell‟
Opera La Festa di Bronao, del Sigr. M
o. Soliva, Eseguito al R. Teatro della Scala, Dalla
Sigra
. Fabbrè e dalli Sigri. Bonoldi e Romorini. Dedicato dall‟ Editore Alla Signora
Principessa Donna Fulvia Pietrasanta, Nata Contessa Verri. Milano: Presso Gio.
Ricordi, [1817]. Full score: 1 f. (title), 28 pp., engraved, oblong folio, plate number 293.
Original red limp boards, gilt decorative borders, a little water-damaged and bumped,
very light water-stain throughout. £120
Il Catalogo Ricordi, vol. I, p. 10.
55) SPONTINI, Gaspare (1774-1851): Die Vestalin. Oper in drei Akten. Französch
und Deutsch. Musik von Spontini, in das Clavier gesezt und der Madame Dael, gebohrne
von Köth, gewidmet von Carl Zulehner. zu Eltville: in dem Rheingau beÿ George
Zulehner, [ca. 1810]. Vocal score: 208 pp. + 2 ff. (titles to second and third acts),
engraved, oblong folio, plate number 198. Sewn in original blue limp card wrappers in
three volumes, heads and feet of backstrips a little worn, with decoratively cut paper
labels. £400
First performed at the Opéra in Paris on 15th
December 1807.
56) WEISKOPF, Louis (fl. late-eighteenth - early-nineteenth century): Sonate [G
minor] Pour le Forte Piano avec Accompagnement de Violon & Basse, Composée &
Dediée a Madlle
. Christine Loppin de Gemeaux Par son très humble Serviteur Louïs
Weiskopff. [S.l.: early-nineteenth century]. Parts: 6, 2, 2 ff., folio. Sewn. Neat copyist’s
manuscript, in ink, on 16-stave paper, watermark “P♥SERVE”, with dynamic and
expression markings and the dedication on the title added in red ink. Another work (in
E-flat major: Allegro moderato – Adagio ma non troppo – Tempo di Minuetto)
comprising 8, 2, 2 ff., has the piano part annotated throughout with fingerings in red ink
and the string parts with alternative harmonies. £325
Fétis lists sonatas for the composer’s Opp. 4, 6 and 14 although RISM lists only one copy
of Op. 6.
57) WRANITZKY, Paul (1756-1808): Trois grands Quatuors Concertants, Pour Deux
Violons, Alto, et Violoncelle Par P. Wranizkÿ, Ouvre [sic] 45. Troisieme quatuor [D
minor]. [Paris: early-nineteenth century]. Score: 30 pp., 1 f. (blank), oblong folio.
Sewn. Neat copyist’s manuscript, in ink, on 12-stave paper (with calculation of number
of bars at end of each movement). £250
RISM W2117 lists just one copy of the printed edition of this work.
58) ZIMMERMANN, Anton (1741-1781): Tre Sonate, Per il Cembalo e Violino,
composted al Sigr. A. Zimmermann, Maestro di Capella di Sua Eminenza il Cardinale
Bathiani, Primate del Regno d‟Ungheria …, Opera I. in Vienna: Edita, e si vende,
apresso Artaria Compag, [1779]. Piano part: 1 f. (title), 33 pp., engraved, oblong folio,
plate number 5. Disbound, sewn. Decoratively bordered title-page. £275
RISM Z 222 citing just 5 copies. Not in BUC.
List compiled by Colin Coleman