SPOHR, Louis 1784-1859

[Op. 53]. Grand Quintuor [in C minor] pour le Pianoforte deux Violons, Viola et Violoncelle composé et dédié A Son Altesse Serenissime Madame la Duchesse Regnante de Saxe=Gotha Altenbourg pp... Oeuv. 53. Pr. 3 Rthlr. [Parts]

Leipzig: Bureau de Musique de C.F. Peters [PNs 1635 (Pianoforte), and 1636 (all other parts)], [?December 1821].

Pianoforte oblong folio; all other parts folio. Unbound.

Pianoforte: [1] (decorative title), 2-34 pp.; Violino primo: [1] (blank), 2-12 pp.; Violino secondo: 9, [i] (blank) pp.; Viola: 7, [i] (blank) pp.; Violoncello: 7, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. Small publisher's handstamp to foot of title.

Handstamps of C.A. André, Frankfurt, and Musikhaus Scharwenka, Kassel, to foot of title.

Slightly browned; minor dampstaining to inner portions of each leaf; Pianoforte part lacking final blank leaf; first two leaves detached with remnants of tape to spine.

With an additional Violino secondo part.

First Edition. Göthel p. 94.

The composer's own arrangement of his Quintet for piano, flute, clarinet, bassoon, and horn, op. 52.

"Spohr immediately arranged his quintet op. 52 for strings... In this version, which was published simultaneously with op. 52 and to which Peters assigned a separate opus number for commercial reasons, the quintet became available to a larger audience, but because of its demanding piano part its dissemination remained limited." Göthel.

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