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1812ref. 41214Berlin: Schlesinger's Buch= und Musikhandlung Unter den Linden No. 34. PN 50 1812. Oblong folio. Contemporary dark brown mottled calf-backed marbled boards with oval label titled in manuscript to upper. 1f. recto title verso blank 3 "Personen" and incipits 4-123 i blank pp. Provenance Noted American harpsichordist Louis Bagger 1926-2024 Binding worn rubbed and bumped. Very occasional minor soiling to blank lower margins; occasional minor showthrough; small stains to title with small circular publisher's handstamp to inner margin. Hopkinson 46Ca. Gluck's work is a tragedy in four acts to a libretto by Nicolas-François Guillard after Guymond de la Touche's Iphigénie en Tauride itself based on Euripides's work of the same name. "Iphigénie en Tauride was the crowning achievement of Gluck's career a result of the combination of his lifelong experience as an opera composer and a libretto which is arguably the best he ever set." Jeremy Hayes in Grove Music Online It was first performed in Paris at the Opéra on 18 May 1779 "with excellent singers; Rosalie Lavasseur sang Iphigénie Larrivée Oreste Legros Pylade and Moreau Thoas. . The opera had a great success immediately and even Grimm wrote of it - I do not know whether this is melody but perhaps it is something better. When I hear Iphigénie I forget I am at the opera; I seem to be listening to a Greek tragedy with music by Lekain and Mlle Clarion. It was the crowning point of Gluck's career. Guillard had provided an excellent libretto more classical than Goethe's poem less Christian and more ruthless; and Gluck had seized on the contrast between Scythians and Greeks upon the perfectly dramatic figures of Iphigenia and Orestes and had produced a work which both re-created a part of Greek tragedy and at the same time foretold a new world." Cooper: Gluck p. 258. Schlesinger's Buch= und Musikhandlung, Unter den Linden No. 34. [PN 50] unknown books
1951ref. 148501Vienna: Anton Schroll 1951. hardcover. very good. Mounted plates many in color. Oblong folio orange cloth. Wien: Anton Schroll 1951. Very good. Anton Schroll unknown books
1985ref. 30926New York: The Ecco Press 1985. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Ecco Press 1985. First Edition. Octavo. 60 pp. Printed dust jacket $13.50 price present. Gray and light red boards with spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with mild wrinkling; dampstaining along spine and bottom edge with associated discoloration. Boards shelfworn with bumping to extremities; discoloration to base of spine; a touch faded and soiled along top edge. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy. Melville Kane Award sticker affixed to upper jacket panel. The Ecco Press unknown books
1974ref. 71571London: Early English Text Society and Oxford University Press 1974. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xlvii 178pp. Previous owner's ink name and 'chop' stamp on front free endpaper else a very good hardback in a rubbed jacket that is suned on the spine and has a closed etar to the top of the front fold. Early English Text Society and Oxford University Press hardcover books
1779ref. 40424Paris: Chez des Lauriers Md. de Papiers Rue St. Honoré à côté de celle des Prouvaires Ou trouve aussi toutes sortes de papiers réglés pour copier la Musique 1779. Folio. Contemporary quarter dark brown calf with marbled boards spine in decorative compartments gilt with titling gilt to spine. 1f. recto title verso blank 256 pp. With blank overpaste to title obscuring the words "Par M. Le Baron de T." Signature "L. Wessén" in ink to front pastedown and "A. Benzinger" to free front endpaper. Binding worn rubbed and bumped; lower portion of upper joint partially split. Occasional small stains foxing browning tears and light dampstaining; minor loss to blank outer margin of pp. 139 and 149; several small holes to p. 237. Quite a good copy overall on quality paper. First Edition variant issue. Hopkinson p. 63 with attributes of 47Ac except here there is no plate number and the price "40" appears in manuscript and 47Ae as "Royale" has been erased here in pencil. Wotquenne 47. BUC p. 386. RISM G2739 First performed in Paris at the Opéra on 24 September 1779. "Echo et Narcisse was a failure at its early performances largely because the audiences and critics expected high drama along the lines of Alceste Armide and Iphigénie en Tauride. But Echo et Narcisse is a different type of work; it belongs to the pastoral tradition still popular at this date and a genre to which Gluck frequently returned. Comparisons were and are still made with Gluck's more popular dramas because Echo et Narcisse contains numbers and scenes similar to those that had made greater impressions before. It is not a weak opera and there is much fine music in it ." Jeremy Hayes in Grove Music Online Gluck was a "Bohemian-Austrian composer of Italian and French opera a leading figure in opera of the second half of the 18th century and the person chiefly credited with the 'reform' of opera after the age of Metastasian opera seria. . Force of circumstance may have led Gluck to Paris to complete his operatic career but in artistic terms Paris can be seen as his inevitable final destination. His years of grounding in opéra comique and the ballet and via Traetta his response to the French tragédie lyrique tradition had already provided the impetus for his overhaul of the opera seria; now it was time to confront that tradition on its own territory. On more than one occasion indeed Gluck explicitly owned the French influence and its particular effect on his preparation for Paris. Between them the eight operas that he produced for the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris - the two Iphigénie operas; the radical revisions for Paris of the Vienna 'reform' operas Orfeo and Alceste; the similar revisions of the Vienna opéras comiques Cythère assiégée and L'arbre enchanté; Armide a new opera on a libretto that Quinault had written for Lully more than 90 years earlier; and the last opera Echo et Narcisse - are all different attempts at the confrontation and revival of that lyric tradition." Jeremy Hayes Bruce Alan Brown Max Loppert and Winton Dean in Grove Music Online. Chez des Lauriers Md. de Papiers, Rue St. Honoré à côté de celle des Prouvaires Ou trouve aussi toutes sortes de papiers ré unknown books
1774ref. 40430Paris: Chez Mr. Lemarchand . A.P.D.R. 1774. Folio. Unbound. Sewn. 1f. recto title verso publisher's catalogue 1f. recto dedication verso "Argument" 52 pp. Engraved. Incomplete with only first act and three pages of second act present. Worn overall with occasional staining foxing and soiling throughout primarily to blank margins; title worn and heavily browned stained and soiled with paper loss to edges; corners slightly bumped and creased; signatures separated; binder's holes to blank inner margin. First Edition unrecorded variant. Wotquenne 41. Hopkinson p. 43 41A. BUC p. 386. Lesure p. 240. RISM G2582. First performed in Vienna at the Burgtheater on 5 October 1762 in Italian to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi and in Paris at the Opéra on 2 August 1774 in French to a libretto by Pierre Louis Moline after Calzabigi. "The classical orientation of Calzabigi evident in Orfeo ed Euridice from the moment the curtain rose on the almost archaeologically recreated ancient funerary ritual e.g. the threefold calling of the name of the deceased coloured the entirety of his collaboration with Gluck. Despite the ambiguous attributions of the prefaces signed by the composer it is clear that Gluck largely shared his librettist's classical enthusiasms . It is revealing that Gluck sought out subject matter from Greek tragedy independently of Calzabigi after the latter's departure from Vienna - most probably with his inner conviction mixing with a desire to exploit the goût grec then prevailing in France . Calzabigi's poetry was almost completely devoid of metaphors and similes and placed a mere three characters in a fluid context of dances and choruses or both simultaneously. The action was reduced to essentials: a demonstration of the persuasive powers of music and a cautionary tale on the dangers of curiosity with Orpheus bewailing the loss of his wife already as the curtain rose. Gluck's approach as composer was no less radical particularly in his near-complete elimination of coloratura and of opening ritornellos in the solo numbers. Above all the opera was remarkable in its emphasis on continuity which was achieved chiefly through the enchaining of harmonically open-ended sections of music and through the complete avoidance of recitativo semplice in favour of orchestrally accompanied recitatives so as to avoid sharp contrasts of texture with the set pieces. This continuity and the nearly syllabic vocal writing were calculated to prevent applause and thus also to promote the audience's absorption in the spectacle." Bruce Alan Brown and Julian Rushton in Grove Music Online. Chez Mr. Lemarchand ... A.P.D.R. unknown books
1783ref. 40431Paris: Chez Des Lauriers Md. de Papiers Rue St. Honoré à côté de celle des Provaires 1783. Folio. Early full dark brown leather with double rule gilt to edges of boards spine in compartments gilt with titling gilt marbled endpapers. 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. recto dedication verso "Argument" 217 pp. Bound with an extra title that of Hopkinson 41Ak. 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. recto blank verso "Argument" pp. Binding quite worn rubbed and bumped with loss to spine. Occasional minor soiling to blank outer margins; paper repairs to blank inner margins of approximately fifteen leaves; small binder's holes to blank inner margin of numerous leaves; occasional staining; worming to blank inner margin of final third of volume; extra title and Argument worn and soiling with worming to blank margins. Second edition of the French version. Wotquenne 41. A variant issue of Hopkinson 41Ai but with the price of 36 instead of 24 tt. Lesure p. 240. RISM G2853. First performed in Vienna at the Burgtheater on 5 October 1762 in Italian to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi and in Paris at the Opéra on 2 August 1774 in French to a libretto by Pierre Louis Moline after Calzabigi. "More successfully than any of his contemporaries Gluck translated the widespread agitation for reform of opera and theatrical dance on the part of European intellectuals into actual works for the stage first in pantomime ballets and Italian serious operas for Vienna and then in operas of various sorts for Paris." Bruce Alan Brown and Julian Rushton in Grove Music Online "The classical orientation of Calzabigi evident in Orfeo ed Euridice from the moment the curtain rose on the almost archaeologically recreated ancient funerary ritual e.g. the threefold calling of the name of the deceased coloured the entirety of his collaboration with Gluck. Despite the ambiguous attributions of the prefaces signed by the composer it is clear that Gluck largely shared his librettist's classical enthusiasms. . It is revealing that Gluck sought out subject matter from Greek tragedy independently of Calzabigi after the latter's departure from Vienna - most probably with his inner conviction mixing with a desire to exploit the goût grec then prevailing in France. . Calzabigi's poetry was almost completely devoid of metaphors and similes and placed a mere three characters in a fluid context of dances and choruses or both simultaneously. The action was reduced to essentials: a demonstration of the persuasive powers of music and a cautionary tale on the dangers of curiosity with Orpheus bewailing the loss of his wife already as the curtain rose. Gluck's approach as composer was no less radical particularly in his near-complete elimination of coloratura and of opening ritornellos in the solo numbers. Above all the opera was remarkable in its emphasis on continuity which was achieved chiefly through the enchaining of harmonically open-ended sections of music and through the complete avoidance of recitativo semplice in favour of orchestrally accompanied recitatives so as to avoid sharp contrasts of texture with the set pieces. This continuity and the nearly syllabic vocal writing were calculated to prevent applause and thus also to promote the audience's absorption in the spectacle." Bruce Alan Brown and Julian Rushton in Grove Music Online. Chez Des Lauriers, Md. de Papiers, Rue St. Honoré à côté de celle des Provaires unknown books
1934ref. 28968Paris: Choudens PN A.C. 15000 1934. Large octavo. Original publisher's ivory printed wrappers. 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. recto notes on first performance and named cast list verso blank 1f. recto contents verso blank 2f. preface 177 i blank pp. Occasional lyrics translated into Norwegian in pencil and black ink. Named cast includes Fernand Ansseau Aline Vallandri Yvonne Brothier and Marthe Coiffier. Wrappers slightly worn and soiled and worn; former owner's handstamp "Hjørdis Wied Koncertsangerinde" and small price handstamp to lower margin of upper wrapper; spine worn with some loss. Wied's handstamp to upper margin of free front endpaper and lower margin of three leaves; annotations in pencil and red crayon to contents; tear to outer margin of pp. 87-92. Revised Paris version. Re-issue of Hopkinson 41Cu. First performed in Paris at the Theâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique on 11 October 1921 under Albert Carré and Isola A. Frères. "Orfeo ed Euridice was the first of Gluck's three so-called reform operas written with Ranieri de' Calzabigi the other two were Alceste and Paride ed Elena in which a 'noble simplicity' in the action and the music was intended to replace the complicated plots and florid musical style of opera seria." Jeremy Hayes in Grove Music Online. Choudens [PN A.C. 15000] unknown books
1900ref. 28969London: Novello Ewer & Co 1900. Large octavo. Full dark red blindtooled cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine all edges gilt. 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. recto cast list and argument verso explanation of abbreviations 137 i blank 1f. recto index verso printer's device pp. Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped. Some signatures split or partially split. A tragedy in four acts to a libretto by Nicolas-François Guillard after Guymond de la Touche's Iphigénie en Tauride itself based on Euripides Iphigénie en Tauride was first performed in Paris at the Opéra on May 18 1779. "Iphigénie en Tauride was the crowning achievement of Gluck's career a result of the combination of his lifelong experience as an opera composer and a libretto which is arguably the best he ever set." Jeremy Hayes in Grove Music Online. Novello, Ewer & Co unknown books
1891ref. 28576London: Novello and Company PN 8146 1891. Large octavo. Original publisher's dark ivory wrappers printed in dark orange. 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. recto argument verso blank 1f. index 135 i printer's' device 1f. publisher's catalogue pp. Wrappers somewhat worn and torn; portions of spine lacking at head and tail. Minor wear to outer margins of first six leaves. First performed in Vienna at the Burgtheater on October 5 1762 in Italian to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi and in Paris at the Opéra on August 2 1774 in French to a libretto by Pierre Louis Moline after Calzabigi. "Orfeo ed Euridice was the first of Gluck's three so-called reform operas written with Ranieri de' Calzabigi the other two were Alceste and Paride ed Elena in which a 'noble simplicity' in the action and the music was intended to replace the complicated plots and florid musical style of opera seria." Jeremy Hayes in Grove Music Online. Novello and Company [PN 8146] unknown books
1900ref. 28577Braunschweig: Henry Litolff PN Collection Litolff No. 82 1900. Large octavo. Half brown calf with marbled boards raised bands on spine in gilt-ruled compartments titling gilt. i title within architectural border 2-3 cast list and contents 4-138 pp. Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped. Light uniform browning. First performed in Vienna at the Burgtheater on 5 October 1762 in Italian to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi and in Paris at the Opéra on 2 August 1774 in French to a libretto by Pierre Louis Moline after Calzabigi. "Orfeo ed Euridice was the first of Gluck's three so-called reform operas written with Ranieri de' Calzabigi the other two were Alceste and Paride ed Elena in which a 'noble simplicity' in the action and the music was intended to replace the complicated plots and florid musical style of opera seria." Jeremy Hayes in Grove Music Online. Henry Litolff [PN Collection Litolff No. 82] unknown books
1900ref. 28967Braunschweig: Henry Litolff PN Collection Litolff No. 80 1900. Large octavo. Half mid-tan mottled calf with marbled boards raised bands on spine in gilt-ruled compartments titling gilt. 1f. recto title within architectural border verso cast list and contents 3-144 pp. Binding slightly worn. A tragedy in four acts to a libretto by Nicolas-François Guillard after Guymond de la Touche's Iphigénie en Tauride itself based on Euripides Gluck's opera was first performed in Paris at the Opéra on May 18 1779. "Iphigénie en Tauride was the crowning achievement of Gluck's career a result of the combination of his lifelong experience as an opera composer and a libretto which is arguably the best he ever set." Jeremy Hayes in Grove Music Online. Henry Litolff [PN Collection Litolff No. 80] unknown books
1774ref. 29643Paris: Lemarchand 1774. Folio. 19th century quarter dark brown leather-backed marbled boards spine in decorative compartments gilt titling gilt. 1f. recto title verso publisher's catalogue 1f. recto dedication verso argument 217 pp. With an inscription signed by the Canadian conductor Wilfrid Pelletier 1896-1982 to Italian conductor Tullio Serafin 1878-1968 dated New York 1928 to front flyleaf. Bass figurings added in manuscript to pp. 10-12 Act I scene 1; final page of music signed by the publisher Lemarchand. Binding worn; edges rubbed; spine split at joints and hinges; chipped at head and tail. Slightly worn and browned; title soiled with outer edge reinforced with paper tape; some minor staining; several repairs to inner margins; occasional small holes. First Edition variant issue. Hopkinson 41Af. Wotquenne 41. Lesure p. 240. RISM G2852 not distinguishing among issues. First performed in Vienna at the Burgtheater on 5 October 1762 in Italian to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi and in Paris at the Opéra on 2 August 1774 in French to a libretto by Pierre Louis Moline after Calzabigi. "The classical orientation of Calzabigi evident in Orfeo ed Euridice from the moment the curtain rose on the almost archaeologically recreated ancient funerary ritual e.g. the threefold calling of the name of the deceased coloured the entirety of his collaboration with Gluck. Despite the ambiguous attributions of the prefaces signed by the composer it is clear that Gluck largely shared his librettist's classical enthusiasms . It is revealing that Gluck sought out subject matter from Greek tragedy independently of Calzabigi after the latter's departure from Vienna - most probably with his inner conviction mixing with a desire to exploit the goût grec then prevailing in France . Calzabigi's poetry was almost completely devoid of metaphors and similes and placed a mere three characters in a fluid context of dances and choruses or both simultaneously. The action was reduced to essentials: a demonstration of the persuasive powers of music and a cautionary tale on the dangers of curiosity with Orpheus bewailing the loss of his wife already as the curtain rose. Gluck's approach as composer was no less radical particularly in his near-complete elimination of coloratura and of opening ritornellos in the solo numbers. Above all the opera was remarkable in its emphasis on continuity which was achieved chiefly through the enchaining of harmonically open-ended sections of music and through the complete avoidance of recitativo semplice in favour of orchestrally accompanied recitatives so as to avoid sharp contrasts of texture with the set pieces. This continuity and the nearly syllabic vocal writing were calculated to prevent applause and thus also to promote the audience's absorption in the spectacle." Bruce Alan Brown and Julian Rushton in Grove Music Online. Lemarchand unknown books
1815ref. 25656Bonn: N. Simrock PN 1125. 1815. Oblong folio. Contemporary marbled boards. 1f. recto title verso blank 3 cast list and table of contents 4-159 i blank pp. Engraved. Disbound. Boards quite worn; spine lacking. Slightly worn soiled foxed and stained; some corners slightly turned; minor underlining and annotations in red pencil to cast list; early repairs to inner margins of title and table of contents not affecting text; small binder's holes to inner margins. Later edition of the French version. Hopkinson 44C a. The French version of Alceste to a libretto by Marie François Louis Gand Leblanc Roullet was first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris on 23 April 1776. "Gluck's revision of Alceste for performance in Paris in 1776 amounts almost to a recomposition. His alterations were far more extensive than those he had made in his Paris adaptation of Orfeo . The French Alceste had a new text by Roullet Gluck's librettist for Iphigénie en Aulide based on Calzabigi's libretto; but alterations to the plot and the order of events led to major differences between the two. The principals at the première of the French version included Rosalie Levasseur Alcestis Joseph Legros Admetus Henri Larrivée Hercules Moreau Apollo and Nicolas Gélin High Priest. At the first Paris performances of Alceste the Act 3 denouement was substantially different from the version familiar today and closer to the Italian original. Gluck and Roullet after much criticism altered the act to incorporate a part for Hercules who has no place in the Italian original. Just as Gluck was arranging more music to enlarge the final divertissement again to please Parisian taste he heard of the death of his adopted daughter Marianne in Vienna; he left Paris and assigned the completion of the divertissement to Gossec. This revised version published in Paris in 1776 is the one that has nearly always been performed subsequently." Jeremy Hayes in Grove Music Online. N. Simrock [PN 1125.] unknown books
1985ref. 168102Garden City NY: Doubleday 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later. Very good in very good dust jacket. Hardcover has bumped corners and spine dust jacket yellowed creased at flap chipped at spine and corners. Doubleday hardcover books
1985ref. 209516New York: Doubleday 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later. Very good or better in very good dust jacket. Book shows very light rubbing at spine ends. Dustwrapper is lightly chipped at top spine end and top corner folds white portions show light soiling. Doubleday hardcover books
ref. 235530VA: TimeLife Books N.D. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine book has very slight rub of top spine nice clean copy. TimeLife Books hardcover books
2012ref. 68975NY:: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2012. Hardcover. 0374126089 . Third printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover books
1932ref. 36553Wien: Anton Schroll 1932. First edition. Beige muslin morocco spine label. Boards stained worn at extremities endpapers foxed else a very good copy with sharp plates. 102 pp. plates. Illus. with 41 color and b/w tipped-in plates with tissue guards. Obl. Folio. Freitag 1393. Anton Schroll hardcover books
1932ref. 114084Wien: Anton Schroll & Co 1932. Hardbound. Good and tight but with a few ex-lib. marks and Plate 1 loose. Tan cloth with gilt lettering; 84 total pp. text and 41 color plates. Text in German; includes a list of illustrations described; plates are tipped onto single-sided pages. There is a supplement of an additional 41 plate descriptions but without the plates. Anton Schroll & Co hardcover books
1980ref. 319428New York: Ecco 1980. First. paperback. near fine. 48p. glossy pictorial wrappers. New York: Ecco Press 1980. First Edition. Ecco unknown books
1770ref. 291401Bologna: Sassi 1770. hardcover. very good. 5 librettos 12mo & small 8vo bound together in 1 volume. 72 pages. 60pp. 32pp. and 7pp. Vellum backed marbles boards. Bologna: Sassi 1770 - 1771. Very good . A scarce group of opera librettos. Sassi unknown books
1962ref. 283186New York: St. Martin's 1962. hardcover. fine/very good. Ed. by Hedwig and E. H. Mueller von Asow. Illus. 8vo black cloth d.w. slightly chipped. New York: St. Martin's Press 1962. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper St. Martin's unknown books
1923ref. 244591Berlin: Bruno Cassirer Verlag 1923. hardcover. very good. 132 plates. 67 pages with text in German. Short slim 4to blue cloth-backed boards a bit edgeworn and covers spotted; internally clean. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer Verlag 1923. Overall a very good copy. Bruno Cassirer Verlag unknown books
1933ref. 204015Vienna: Krystall 1933. First. hardcover. very good. Hundreds photographic and text illustrations in black & white. Tall 8vo tan linen spine slightly darkened. Vienna: Krystall 1933. First Edition. Very good . Krystall unknown books
