GLUCK, (Christoph Willibald). Iphigenie en Aulide. Tragédie. Opéra en trois Actes. Mis en Musique par Gluck. Représente pour la premiere foir par l'Académie National de Musique le mardy 17 April 1774. Prix 30. Paris, Les Lauriers (after 1792).
Folio. (2) lvs. (title, publisher's catalogue), 298 pp. Engraved throughout. 19th century half calf with green leather boards (somewhat stained and rubbed); spine gilt, spine label, owner's name (Mme. Adolphe de Lanneau") printed on front board. Third edition of the full score, later issue. Printed from the plates of the original edition, new title ("Titelauflage"). A word to the provenance: This copy was previously in the possession of the wife of Adolphe de Lanneau de Marey. He was a member of the important Paris family Lanneau de Marey, well-known in pedagogical circles and - like his father Pierre Antoine Victor before him - director of the École Sainte Barbe in Paris; they had reopened this school in 1798 (see Michaud, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, Vol. XXIII, p. 208-210). This was one of Gluck's first major successes in Paris, which paved the way for further series of performances of his own operas. Browned throughout, first and last leaves water-marked to margins, in places with damp-stains. Hopkinson 40 A (h), but without plate number and with a catalogue containing 29 und 31 works; RISM G 2749; Hirsch II, 274; CPM 24, 54; BSB 6, 2269. No copy of this opera in the Collection Hoboken.
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