Grétry, André-Ernest-Modeste. MANUSCRIPT OF THE BALLET SUITE FROM GRÉTRY'S OPERA LE COMTE D'ALBERT (1786), USED FOR PERFORMANCE, WITH CONTEMPORARY MARKINGS the title: "Partie de Ballet de la Suite du Comte d'Albert. Opera Tragicomique donné le 13 9bre [1786] a Fontainebleau"; the Suite comprising eight numbered sections with titles ("Les Villageois forment une Danse à l'entour du Comte et de la Comtesse..."; "air Russe", "Pas de Deux" etc), the keyboard score written in brown ink on six two-stave systems per page, marked up for performance in orange crayon in another early hand ("3 fois l'air en tournant"; "de suite"; "Finale"; "une fin" etc), and with repeats and cuts indicated, some pages stitched together, 24 pages, 4to, uncut, original stitching, [Paris or Fontainebleau, c.1786], one leaf torn
Grétry, André-Ernest-Modeste. MANUSCRIPT OF THE BALLET SUITE FROM GRÉTRY'S OPERA LE COMTE D'ALBERT (1786), USED FOR PERFORMANCE, WITH CONTEMPORARY MARKINGS the title: "Partie de Ballet de la Suite du Comte d'Albert. Opera Tragicomique donné le 13 9bre [1786] a Fontainebleau"; the Suite comprising eight numbered sections with titles ("Les Villageois forment une Danse à l'entour du Comte et de la Comtesse..."; "air Russe", "Pas de Deux" etc), the keyboard score written in brown ink on six two-stave systems per page, marked up for performance in orange crayon in another early hand ("3 fois l'air en tournant"; "de suite"; "Finale"; "une fin" etc), and with repeats and cuts indicated, some pages stitched together, 24 pages, 4to, uncut, original stitching, [Paris or Fontainebleau, c.1786], one leaf torn
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