LE SUEUR, Jean-François 1760-1837

Ossian ou les Bardes. [Piano-vocal score]

New York: Broude Brothers, [1971].

Large octavo. Original publisher's ivory wrappers printed in red and blue. 1f. (recto half title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title printed in red and black, verso printer's note), 1f. (blank), 1f. (recto facsimile of original illustrated title, verso blank), 10 (introduction), 1f. (recto named cast list, verso blank), [iii] (contents), [1] (blank), 1f. (recto full-page illustration, verso blank), 484 pp.

Wrappers very slightly worn and soiled.

Number 15 in the series Chefs-d'Œuvre Classiques de l'Opéra Français.

Ossian ou les Bardes, in five acts to a libretto by Palat (known as P. Dercy) and Jacques-Marie Deschamps after James Macpherson’s Ossianic epic, was first performed in Paris at the Opéra on July 10, 1804.

"The score of Ossian shows strokes of brilliance ... historically the work constitutes an essential link in a chain leading gradually from Classical to Romantic opera." Jean Mongrédien in Grove Music Online.

Item #28746

Price: $50.00  other currencies