Accession number:
PML 127101
Published:
A Paris : Chez Pleyel ..., [1802?]
Credit:
Purchased on the Cary Fund and Fellows Fund, special gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Description:
1 miniature score (4 v. in 1) : port. ; 20 cm
Notes:
"Gravés par Lobry."
First editions.
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Includes portrait of Haydn: v. 1, facing t.p.
These are the earliest small-format scores. According to Rita Benton, they were announced in the Journal typographique et bibliographique on 5 June 1802 (vols. 1 and 2), 26 August 1802 (vol. 3), and 26 December 1802 (vol. 4); see Rita Benton, Pleyel as Music Publisher: A Documentary Sourcebook of Early 19th-Century Music (Stuyvesant, N. Y.: Pendragon Press, 1990), 1-2. Hoboken 3:65 and Hoboken-Sammlung 7:156-58, apparently misreading the Republican calendar, have 1803.
Binding:
Bound in red goatskin over pasteboards, front and rear covers with a gilt border of a five-line musical stave, corner of justaposed G-clefs; with the binder's ticket of the Comte de Caumont, No. 1, Frith Street, Soho.
Variant Title:
Œuvres d'Haydn en partitions
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