Record ID
403779
Accession number
PMC 2194
Creator
Mouret, Jean-Joseph, 1682-1738.
Biographical Data
French composer.
Object title
Les amours des dieux : ballet heroique / mis en musique par Monsieur Mouret, musicien de la chambre du Roy ; representé pour la premiere fois par l'Academie royale de musique le mardy 16me. septembre 1727.
Published
Se vend a Paris : Chez l'auteur, place du palais royal au Coin de la rüe St. Thomas, le Sieur Boiuin, rüe St. Honoré a la regle d'or, a l'Opera, [1727]
Credit line
Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund in 2015.
Provenance
Serge Diaghilev; Serge Lifar; Diaghilev-Lifar Library auction, Sotheby's, Monaco, 28 November-1 December 1975, lot 425.
Inscriptions/Markings
Ink stamp of Serge Lifar to front end-leaf, title, first page of music and final page (privilège).
Bound in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, marbled edges.
Bound in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, marbled edges.
Notes
Reduced score with unrealized figured bass.
Libretto by L. Fuzelier--Cf. New Grove opera.
"Privilege general"--Page [58] at end.
Engraved throughout: "Graué par L. Hüe."
Numbered pages 41-42 inserted between pages 42 and 43 in Apollon et Coronis.
Libretto by L. Fuzelier--Cf. New Grove opera.
"Privilege general"--Page [58] at end.
Engraved throughout: "Graué par L. Hüe."
Numbered pages 41-42 inserted between pages 42 and 43 in Apollon et Coronis.
Contents
Prologue -- Neptune et Amymone -- Jupiter et Niobé -- Apollon et Coronis -- Ariane et Bacchus.
Associated names
Fuzelier, M. (Louis), 1672-1752, librettist.
Boivin, François, d. 1733, bookseller.
Hue, Louis-Hector, active 1715-1768, engraver.
Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929, former owner.
Lifar, Serge, 1905-1986, former owner.
Boivin, François, d. 1733, bookseller.
Hue, Louis-Hector, active 1715-1768, engraver.
Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929, former owner.
Lifar, Serge, 1905-1986, former owner.
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