GRANDVAL, Nicolas Racot de 1676-1753

Zénéïde comédie en un acte, en vers, avec divertissement. Par Monsieur de Cahusac, Sécrétaire des Commandemens de S.A.S. Monseigneur le Comte de Clermont, Prince du Sang. Représentée pour la premiere fois, par les Comédiens du Roy, le 13 May 1743. [Libretto]

Paris: Prault, 1744.

Octavo. Modern marbled wrappers. 1f. (title), [3]-42 pp. Named cast list. With frontispiece of a scene from the opera engraved by Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre (1713-1789) and pictorial woodcut device to title, also by Pierre; decorative headpiece to p. 3.

Named cast includes Mlle. Grandval, Mr. Grandval, Mlle. d'Angeville, and Mlle. Gaussin.

The twelfth and final scene consists of a cantatille followed by dancing; an ariette, also followed by dancing; and a 4-verse vaudeville.

Slightly worn and browned.

Probable First Edition. OCLC 456229749.

Grandval was a French composer and author. "Born into a family of actors, the young Grandval joined a travelling theatrical troupe for which he wrote divertissements and incidental music. He relinquished this nomadic life to settle in Paris where he became associated with the Comédie Dancourt and Théâtre Français." David Tunley in Grove Music Online.

Item #22544

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