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176932211Paris Lion: M. Castaud 1769. Folio. Contemporary full green vellum with octagonal cut paper label titled in manuscript to upper board. 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. recto dedication verso blank 131 pp. Engraved.<br/><br/>From the collection of the American composer and conductor Gene Forrell 1915-2005 with his signature and embossed London address to endpapers. <br/><br/>With rectangular printed label of French publisher "Le Menu" to foot of title.<br/><br/>Binding moderately worn; vellum separated at spine; hinge partially split. Some worming mostly to inner margins; occasional minor tears repaired; title soiled; marginal tears to final two leaves. First Edition first issue. Lesure p. 259. Sonneck Dramatic Music p. 66 later issue. Hirsch II 339. RISM G4225. <br/><br/>Lucile to a libretto by Marmontel after his L'école des pères was first performed in Paris at the Comédie-Italiennes Hôtel de Bourgogne on January 5 1769. <br/><br/>The plot centers around the daughter of working man who enters a bourgeois family. "Lucile was Grétry's most popular opéra comique for more than ten years. Its sentimental solutions to problems of social inequity tapped enormous resources of public sympathy; audiences could identify with either party still be satisfied and emerge both 'weeping and enchanted' as described by Louis Petit de Bachaumont in his Mémoirs secrets iv 1787 pp.208-9. The music spans a considerable range of feeling and drama with Blaise's F minor character portrait 'Ah! ma femme!' as the linchpin of the whole." David Charlton in Grove Music Online. M. Castaud unknown books
177032214Paris: Aux Adresses ordinaires . Lion M. Castaud . M. Serrieres 1770. Folio. Full contemporary green vellum with octagonal cut paper label to upper with titling in manuscript. 1f. rec to title verso dedication 134 pp. Engraved.<br/><br/>With overpaste of Parisian music publisher "Bailleux" to imprint. <br/><br/>From the collection of the American composer and conductor Gene Forrell 1915-2005 with his signature and embossed London address to endpapers.<br/><br/>Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped; vellum to hinge and upper board split. Light uniform browning. First Edition second issue. Lesure p. 263. Sonneck: Dramatic Music p. 69. Hirsch II 361. RISM G4438.<br/><br/>Silvain to a libretto by Marmontel after S. Gessner's Erast was first performed in Paris at the Comedie Italienne Bourgogne on February 19 1770.<br/><br/>"Grétry's operas which enjoyed such a vogue in France. cannot be judged without the contribution of his librettists. Nevertheless full credit must be given to his own contributions to the planning partly revealed in his Réflexions d'un solitaire as well as his unrelenting desire to extend the scope of both opéra comique and opéra. Grétry's very attractive melodic gift was an essential ingredient and helps justify the occasional revival of his music. With his librettists he brought to life a range of splendidly imagined characters ranging from bumpkins to monarchs or from a rebellious female warrior to the murderous Bluebeard. His best scores had wide currency especially in Germany: it is hard to imagine the evolution of opéra comique and Romantic opera in general without the part played by his works." David Charlton in Grove Music Online. Aux Adresses ordinaires ... Lion M. Castaud ... M. Serrieres unknown books
