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Alceste : tragédie : opera en trois actes
- Title
- Alceste : tragédie : opera en trois actes / par Gluck.
- Author
- Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787
- Publication
- A Paris : Chez Boieldieu jeune, Rue de Richelieu, no. 80, au coin de celle Feydeau, [between 1811 and 1817]
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 preliminary leaf, score (293 pages); 34 cm
- Donor/Sponsor
- Julian Edwards Collection.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Operas.
- Scores.
- Note
- Full score.
- "Représentée pour la 1ere fois par l'Académie Royale de Musique le 30 avril 1776" - on title page.
- Libretto by Calsabigi translated by DuRoullet.
- "The French Alceste had a new text by Roullet...based on Calzabigi's libretto; but alterations to the plot and the order of events led to major differences between the two" - information from Grove/Oxford Music Online.
- Date based on Dictionnaire des éditeurs de musique français (1979), v. 1 / Anik Devriès-Lesure.
- "Le premier acte este gravé par Mme. Lobry" - at foot of page 1.
- Indexed In (note)
- RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales)
- Language (note)
- French words
- Provenance (note)
- NYPL copy from the library of Julian Edwards, 1914; inside cover contains his bookplace; his signature at the top of the title page.
- Call Number
- JOG 21-251
- OCLC
- 84060420
- Author
- Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787, composer.
- Title
- Alceste : tragédie : opera en trois actes / par Gluck.
- Publisher
- A Paris : Chez Boieldieu jeune, Rue de Richelieu, no. 80, au coin de celle Feydeau, [between 1811 and 1817]
- Type of Content
- notated music
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Indexed In:
- RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales), A/I, G 2642RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales), 990021773
- Language
- French words
- Provenance
- NYPL copy from the library of Julian Edwards, 1914; inside cover contains his bookplace; his signature at the top of the title page.
- Local Note
- Former classmark: Mus. Res. *MSI
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Opera ballet. Alceste.
- Added Author
- Lobry, Anne-Élisabeth, 1773-1823, engraver.Based on (work): Calzabigi, Ranieri de, 1714-1795. Alceste.Du Roullet, François Louis Gaud Lebland, marquis, 1716-1786, librettist.Edwards, Julian, 1855-1910, former owner.
- Publisher No.
- 2 Boieldieu jeune
- Research Call Number
- JOG 21-251