BELLINI, Vincenzo 1801-1835

Norma, Opera del Celebre Bellini, Finale Secondo [Manuscript piano-vocal score].

Italian, ca. 1835-1840

Oblong quarto (222 x 320 mm). Early stiff wrappers with large lithograph laid down to upper with titling in ink. 1r (blank), 1v-35r, 35v-36 (blank) leaves. Notated in ink on rastrum-drawn 10-stave laid paper. Watermark of a bunch of grapes.

The lithograph laid down to the upper wrapper depicts a ball with couples dancing in an elegant candle-lit salon. With "Milano Litografia Ricordi" to lower right and "N 404" to upper right margin; "Per uso di Teresa Crejci" in contemporary manuscript to lower right corner of first leaf and initials "L.D. B.V. M." (L.D. Beata Virgo Maria) at conclusion of manuscript.

The final three numbers of Norma: "Dammi quel ferro," "Qual cor tradisti," and "Norma deh Norma scolpati," corresponding to pp. 158-173 of the piano-vocal score published by Ricordi.

Norma, to a libretto by Felice Romani, was first performed in Milan at La Scala on 26 December 1831.

An attractive item.

Item #33424

Price: $225.00  other currencies