Le Grétry des Concerts Recueil des Airs Scenes Duos Trios Quatuors Choeurs des Opéras Français.
182815371Paris: Castil-Blaze PN 23 1828. 1f. title 3ff. preface including a list of operas by Grétry 2-258 i index pp. listing the 46 numbers from the 21 operas found in the work. <br/><br/>The present score is especially interesting as it contains an air from Grétry's opera Cécile et Ermancé ou Les deux couvents comédie mêlée d'ariettes not included in the published edition of the opera. The work in 3 acts to a libretto by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle and Jean-Baptiste-Denis Desprès was first performed on January 16 1792 in Paris at the Comédie-Italienne. <br/><br/>Wotquenne: Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles 3624.<br/><br/>Bound with:<br/>Carbonel Narcisse. La Dansomanie Ballet de P. Gardel Arrangé pour le Forte-Piano avec accompagnement de Violon. 1re Livraison. Paris: Frères Gaveaux ca. 1828. 1f. title 1 blank 2-36 pp. Mercier overpaste to imprint. Engraved. The first act only.<br/><br/>Folio. Contemporary green vellum-backed marbled boards with manuscript title label to upper. <br/><br/>Binding worn; hinges split. Castil-Blaze [PN 23] unknown books
