RAMEAU, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Zoroastre, Tragédie, mise en musique... et représentée pour la première fois par l’Académie Royale de Musique le 2. Decembre 1749. Paris: Veuve Boivin, Le Clair, Le Castagnière et Chez L’Auteur, [1749].
Very rare first edition of the fourth of Rameau's musical tragedies to be staged. The first performance took place on 5 December 1749 at the Royal Academy of Music in Paris. It is the first major French opera without an allegorical prologue. Hirsch II, 792; RISM R-171.
Oblong quarto (245 x 316mm). Woodcut device on title, 189 pp., letterpress title, engraved throughout (pp. 33-36 coming loose, occasional faint spotting, otherwise fresh and crisp). Contemporary calf, gilt spine, red speckled edges, marbled endpapers (covers stained, extremities rubbed, lacking front free endpaper).
RAMEAU, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Zoroastre, Tragédie, mise en musique... et représentée pour la première fois par l’Académie Royale de Musique le 2. Decembre 1749. Paris: Veuve Boivin, Le Clair, Le Castagnière et Chez L’Auteur, [1749].
Very rare first edition of the fourth of Rameau's musical tragedies to be staged. The first performance took place on 5 December 1749 at the Royal Academy of Music in Paris. It is the first major French opera without an allegorical prologue. Hirsch II, 792; RISM R-171.
Oblong quarto (245 x 316mm). Woodcut device on title, 189 pp., letterpress title, engraved throughout (pp. 33-36 coming loose, occasional faint spotting, otherwise fresh and crisp). Contemporary calf, gilt spine, red speckled edges, marbled endpapers (covers stained, extremities rubbed, lacking front free endpaper).
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