Reichardt, Johann Friedrich Collection of first and early editions of his operas and songs from his operas 1) [Brenno. Opera seria [score], Berlin: author, [c. 1797]], 309 pages, folio (33 x 25cm), engraved music, uncut and unbound, without title-page, last leaf torn with slight loss, p. 211 printed twice (first time with excision and blank verso), some damp-staining 2) Erwin und Elmire. Ein Singspiel in zwey Acten...Vollständiger Clavierauszug [vocal score] [Hoboken 235; cf. RISM R 796], Berlin: Neue Berlinische Musikhandlung, [1793], 108 pages, folio (31 x 27.3cm), type-set music, nineteenth-century patterned papered boards, light wear to binding; bound together with 3), following 3) Jery und Bätely. Ein Singspiel in einem Aufzuge [vocal score] [RISM R 807], Berlin: author, [c. 1789], FIRST EDITION, 28 pages, with additional title ("Musik zu Göthe's Werken...Dritter Band"), type-set music 4) Die Geisterinsel. Ein Singspiel in 3 Akten von J. F. Gotter nach Shakespear's Sturm [vocal score] [RISM R 797], Berlin: Neue Berlinische Musikhandlung, [1799], FIRST EDITION, 154 pages, folio (31 x 23.5cm), engraved music, nineteenth-century patterned papered boards, light wear to covers 5) Arie scelte dell' opera Rosmonda...agiustate per il pianoforte [vocal score], Berlin: E. Fröhlich, no date, FIRST EDITION, 24 pages, 4to (31.2 x 27.8cm), type-set music, some pencil manuscript musical annotations on last page, contemporary blue card wrappers, a few small stains, covers worn 6) Gesaenge aus der Oper Tamerlan von J. F. Reichardt. No: I [vocal score] [RISM R 816], no place, no name, no date, 23 pages, oblong 8vo (17.9 x 25.7cm), engraved music, contemporary blue wrappers, lacking upper wrapper A good collection of scores, including of Brenno, which was performed with great success before Friedrich Wilhelm II. Of it the composer wrote: " more than any other [of my operas], it was conceived and worked out according to my own taste, with confidence in my own powers and with faith in a great new epoch of noble musical theatre". No copy of 5) or 6), according to RISM, in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek. LITERATURETNG, xxi (2001), pp. 137ff. PROVENANCEFrom the collection of the Berlin pianist and teacher Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916)
Reichardt, Johann Friedrich Collection of first and early editions of his operas and songs from his operas 1) [Brenno. Opera seria [score], Berlin: author, [c. 1797]], 309 pages, folio (33 x 25cm), engraved music, uncut and unbound, without title-page, last leaf torn with slight loss, p. 211 printed twice (first time with excision and blank verso), some damp-staining 2) Erwin und Elmire. Ein Singspiel in zwey Acten...Vollständiger Clavierauszug [vocal score] [Hoboken 235; cf. RISM R 796], Berlin: Neue Berlinische Musikhandlung, [1793], 108 pages, folio (31 x 27.3cm), type-set music, nineteenth-century patterned papered boards, light wear to binding; bound together with 3), following 3) Jery und Bätely. Ein Singspiel in einem Aufzuge [vocal score] [RISM R 807], Berlin: author, [c. 1789], FIRST EDITION, 28 pages, with additional title ("Musik zu Göthe's Werken...Dritter Band"), type-set music 4) Die Geisterinsel. Ein Singspiel in 3 Akten von J. F. Gotter nach Shakespear's Sturm [vocal score] [RISM R 797], Berlin: Neue Berlinische Musikhandlung, [1799], FIRST EDITION, 154 pages, folio (31 x 23.5cm), engraved music, nineteenth-century patterned papered boards, light wear to covers 5) Arie scelte dell' opera Rosmonda...agiustate per il pianoforte [vocal score], Berlin: E. Fröhlich, no date, FIRST EDITION, 24 pages, 4to (31.2 x 27.8cm), type-set music, some pencil manuscript musical annotations on last page, contemporary blue card wrappers, a few small stains, covers worn 6) Gesaenge aus der Oper Tamerlan von J. F. Reichardt. No: I [vocal score] [RISM R 816], no place, no name, no date, 23 pages, oblong 8vo (17.9 x 25.7cm), engraved music, contemporary blue wrappers, lacking upper wrapper A good collection of scores, including of Brenno, which was performed with great success before Friedrich Wilhelm II. Of it the composer wrote: " more than any other [of my operas], it was conceived and worked out according to my own taste, with confidence in my own powers and with faith in a great new epoch of noble musical theatre". No copy of 5) or 6), according to RISM, in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek. LITERATURETNG, xxi (2001), pp. 137ff. PROVENANCEFrom the collection of the Berlin pianist and teacher Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916)
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