AUBER, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871

[AWV 17]. La Fiancée Die Braut Opéra en 3 Actes ... Klavier-Auszug ... Der deutsche Text, zum Gebrauch für die Königl. Oper zu Berlin, vom Baron von Lichtenstein. No. 1540. Pr. 3 Rth. [Piano-vocal score]

Berlin: Ad. Mt. Schlesinger [PN 1540], [ca. 1835].

Oblong folio. Original publisher's dark ivory wrappers with titling within decorative border. 1f. (title with list of individual pieces and their prices), [1] (blank), 2-102 pp. Engraved. Uncut. Text in French and German.

Provenance: The noted music collector and bibliographer Anthony von Hoboken, with his small decorative bookplate with nautical motif to upper outer corner of verso of upper wrapper.

Wrappers frayed at edges, soiled, and somewhat darkened; spine split and partially lacking. Minor foxing, heavier to some leaves; light offsetting and bleeding; final signature partially detached. Small circular publisher's handstamp to lower inner margin of title. A very good wide-margined copy overall.

First German edition. Rare. Schneider p. 418. Worldcat (2 copies only, at the University of Chicago and Julliard).

La fiancée, an opéra-comique to a libretto by Eugene Scribe, was first performed at the Opéra-Comique (Feydeau) on 10 January 1829.

Auber "composed mostly opéras comiques, and was the foremost representative of this genre in 19th-century France... [He] consolidated his international reputation with La fiancée and Fra Diavolo." Herbert Schneider in Grove Music Online.

Item #26553

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