Catalogue 63 - J & J Lubrano, Music Antiquarians

Fry was the composer of the first grand opera by an American to be staged in the United States, Leonora, in 1845, the
year of the present letter. "Its production just four years after the American premiere of Norma confirmed the growing
acceptance of Italian opera by American audiences and demonstrated that musical alternatives to the English
operatic heritage were viable." John Graziano in Grove online.
"His greatest influence on American musical life was as a journalist and music critic; his admonitions encouraged
such composers as Bristow to turn to native sources for ideas and inspiration, and provided a climate that fostered the
work of Farwell, Cadman, MacDowell and others." David E. Campbell in Grove online.
Autograph material relating to this earliest American grand opera composer is very rare.
97. GAVEAUX, Pierre 1760-1825. Le Traité Nul, Opéra en un Acte, Paroles De M. Marssollier, Dédié à
Madame Sageret... Représentée pour la Première fois, Sur le Théâtre Faydeau, le 23. Juin 1797. Gravé par Mme.
Brunet. [Full score]. Paris: Frères Gaveaux, [ca. 1797]. Folio. Contemporary full green vellum. 2ff. (title, dedication),
[1] (cast list), 2-207 pp. Engraved. Binding worn and warped, front endpaper detached. Moderate to heavy browning;
small stain to inner blank margins throughout; light dampstaining to several leaves; tear to pp. 9/10 repaired; pp.
206/06 detached, creased and frayed at edges. With Le Duc overpaste to title. (19195)
$325.
First Edition, variant issue, without plate number. RISM G694.
A comic opera, with text by Marsollier des Vivetières, first performed in Paris at the Théâtre Feydeau on June 23rd
1797.
98. GLINKA, Mikhail Ivanovich 1804-1857. Zhizn'za tsaria [Das Leben für den Czaaren]: bol'shaia opera v
chetyrekh deistviiakh s epilogom dlia peniia s fortepiano. [Piano-vocal score. Moskva: A. Gutkheil [PN A. 2417 G.],
1885. Large octavo. Black cloth-backed boards. [1] (title in Cyrillic), [2] (contents), 3-387, [i] (blank) pp. With
performance markings in pencil and coloured crayon throughout. Early manuscript Hungarian translation in both ink
and pencil. Binding worn and slightly frayed; joints split. Signs of wear and usage; slightly browned; several repairs;
pinholes to outer margins of some leaves; some corners creased. (18740)
$175.
The opera was first performed at the Bolshoi on November 27th 1836.
99. GLUCK, Christoph Willibald Ritter von 1714-1787. Orphée et Euridice, Tragédie Opera en trois Actes.
Dédiée A La Reine... Les Parolles sont de M. Moline. Représentée pour la premiere fois par l'Académie Royale de
Musique le Mardy 2 Aoust 1774. [Full score]. Paris: Des Lauriers, [ca. 1783]. Folio. Quarter mottled mid-tan calf
with marbled boards, raised bands on spine in decorative compartments gilt, gilt titling to spine. 1f. (r. title engraved
by Beauble, v. publisher's catalogue), 1f. (r. composer's dedication, v. "Argument"), 217 pp. With "1er Acte Gravé par
le Sr. Huguet" to foot of first page of music. With manuscript commentary in English dated [18]29 to blank front
endpaper. Occasional markings in pencil. With the bookplate of Gilbert Samuel Inglefield, former Lord Mayor of
London, to front pastedown. Some minor foxing and browning to title. A very good copy overall. (19260)
$850.
Second edition of the French version. A variant issue of either Hopkinson 41A(g) or (h). RISM G2853.
"More successfully than any of his contemporaries, [Gluck] translated the widespread agitation for reform of opera
and theatrical dance on the part of European intellectuals into actual works for the stage, first in pantomime ballets
and Italian serious operas for Vienna and then in operas of various sorts for Paris." Bruce Alan Brown and Julian
Rushton in Grove online.