Record ID:
115149
Accession number:
Cary 386
Creator:
Le Sueur, 1760-1837.
Biographical Data:
French composer and writer on music.
Title:
[La mort d'Adam. Exauce ô dieu puissant sa timide prière!] : autograph manuscript, 1838 Mar. 5.
Uniform title:
Mort d'Adam. Exauce ô dieu puissant sa timide prière.
Date:
1838 Mar. 5.
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund, 1973.
Inscription/Markings:
At the top of p. 71: "je certifié que les deux pages de musique sont de la main de mon mari et de sa composition / dans son opéra d'Adam (de la mort) paris ce 5 mars 1838. Adeline LeSueur / née Jamart de Courchamps."
Notes:
Full score; for voices and orchestra.
Part of the souvenir album of music autographs compiled by Gustave Vogt (1781-1870). The album contains entries by 63 musicians (one unidentified) and is dated Paris (a few are without locations), 1831-1856, most come from the 1840s.
Text begins: "Exauce ô dieu puissant sa timide prière!"
Provenance:
Gustave Vogt (1781-1870).
Associated names:
Guillard, Nicolas François, 1752-1814.
Le Sueur, Adeline.
Vogt, Gustave, 1781-1870, former owner.
Department:
Music Collection: