Donizetti

1858 · 619953 — New York: William Hall & Son 1858. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Arranged by G.W. Glover. Folio. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Notched and worn along the fold from once being bound within an album as a result the insert remains attached to the bifolium trimmed along the top and bottom to better fit within the album not affecting any music and foxing throughout still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano. Plate number 403. A note above the music gives context to the song "During the occupation of the Tyrol by the French and after a skirmish between the hostile ranks an infant child was found alone in their camp by the 11th Regiment of the Grand Army of Napoleon." She was raised by the regiment and given the name Maria. By the time she turned 18 however they learned that she was the daughter of the Marchioness de Berkenfield "and by her removed to a sphere more consonant to the dignity of her birth." But Maria found it difficult to adapt to this new lifestyle "and being reproached by her mother with want of pride defended herself in the words of this song. William Hall & Son unknown