Verdi, Giuseppe; Byron, George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale; Hugo, Victor; H. Martin, et al.

I due Foscari: opera en quatre Actes Partition Pour Piano Seul; Rigoletto: opera en quatre Actes Partition Pour Piano Seul [with 4 Other works]

Bureau Central de Musique / Leon Escudier / Propriedad Del Editor Lit Portal del Águila de Oro [Manuel Murguía], 1850. First Edition. Leather Binding. Folio - between 12" - 15" Tall. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #00521208

6 works bound together in one volume, including two exceptionally early works by Giuseppe Verdi, an apparently unrecorded Mexican imprint published in Mexico City by Manuel Murguía under the imprint Propriedad Del Editor Lit Portal del Águila de Oro (ca. 1855?), with and two original manuscript scores. 3/4 blue calf over mustard-colored pebbled cloth (some rubbing, some smudges and dampstaining). 1) 'The Two Foscari' Verdi's opera in three acts to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on a play by Lord Byron, was first performed in 1844. Exceptionally scarce early Score for Piano, published ca. 1850 by Bureau Central de Musique, Paris. This is an original printing, not a later reproduction (plate marks from the stone lithographs visible on all leaves). [2]+101 pages. Has publisher's ink stamp on title, some smudges and minor staining. 2) 'Rigoletto' debuted in 1851with a libretto written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play 'Le roi s'amuse' by Victor Hugo. This exceptionally early Piano Score published by Leon Escudier, Paris, 1854 (per the Bibliotheque Nationale): Notes: 1854 d'apres le Dictionnaire des editeurs de musique francais / Devries, Lesure, 1988. Description:.

Price: $400.00