Lot n° 13
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ANSEAUME, Louis & Egidio DUNI
La Clochette. Comedy in one Act in verse. By Mr. Anseaume. Set to music by Mr. Duny, boarder of the late H.R.H. Infant Dom Philippe. Represented for the first time by the Comédiens Italiens Ordinaires du Roy, on Thursday, July 24, 1766. Engraved by the Sr. Hue.
Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1766
COMIC OPERA ENTIRELY ENGRAVED AND IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING
ORIGINAL EDITION Small folio (330 x 250 mm)
COLLATION : (2) ff. 95 pp.
CONTEMPORARY BINDING. red morocco, gilt decoration, triple fillet with fleurons in the corners, long spine decorated with fleurons, vertical titling, gilt edges
PROVENANCE: Claude-Ambroise Régnier, Duke of Massa (1736-1814; bookplate)
Corners very slightly dulled
Egidio Duni (1709-1775) was first chapel master in Bari and Parma before ending his career in Paris as musical director of the Comédie italienne. He was one of the first composers to achieve lasting success with comic opera. He wrote more than twenty of them.
BIBLIOGRAPHY : Favart, Nécrologie des Hommes célèbres de France, Année 1776, p.143-144
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