Item #36086 Air d'Oedipe ... Accompagnement de Piano par Lachnith. Antonio SACCHINI.

Air d'Oedipe ... Accompagnement de Piano par Lachnith

Paris: Janet et Cotelle [PN 104], [Ca. 1825].

Folio. Bifolium. 3, [i] (blank) pp. Titling to head of p.1; incipit "Votre cour devint mon azile..."

Slightly worn and soiled; spine reinforced with Japanese paper; bookseller's and publisher's handstamps to page 1.

Oedipe à Colone, a tragédie lyrique set to a libretto by Nicolas-François Guillard after Sophocles, was first performed at Versaillles on 4 January 1786.

"Oedipe à Colone was written during 1785 and performed for the first time at Versailles. Intrigues against the composer led to the abandonment of a revival at Fontainebleau, but by the time of Sacchini’s death in October 1786 a production at the Opéra must have been planned. It was given there on 1 February 1787 and was an immediate and lasting success: it was performed more often – 583 times up to 1830 – than any other operas of its time, including Gluck’s." Julian Rushton in Grove Music Online.

Item #36086

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