MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791

L'Oie du Caire ... L'Oca del Cairo Opéra Bouffe en deux actes Poême de M. Victor Wilder Oeuvre Posthume ... Prix Net : 10f. [KV 422]. [Piano-vocal score]

Paris: Au Ménestrel [PN H. 3511, H. 2511, [1867].

Tall octavo. Quarter dark brown morocco with marbled boards, raised bands on spine with titling gilt, marbled endpapers. 1f. (recto illustrated title printed in sepia, verso blank), 1f. (bust-length lithographic portrait of the composer by Alfred Lemoine, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication to "Louis Martinet ... Directeur du Théâtre des Fantaisies Parisiennes" dated August 1, 1867, verso blank), [i] (title, with named cast list and contents), [ii] (publisher's catalogue), [i] (copyright notice), 4 ("Notice-Préface), 141, [i] (blank) pp. Lithographed.

Named cast includes Ant. Arnaud, Géraizer, Mathilde, Laurent, Masson, and Bonnet.

Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped. Moderately foxed throughout; some signatures separated.

Köchel 6, p. 460.

An unfinished work, set to a libretto by Giovanni Battista Varesco.

"Mozart requested the libretto from Varesco in May 1783, discussed it in Salzburg during the summer, and by December had composed most of the first act. He abandoned work early in 1784 and in a letter to his father (10 February) he offered sharp criticism of detail and design. The libretto involves an amorous intrigue on the island of Ripasecca, ruled by Don Pippo (bass); the Cairo goose was to intervene as a mechanical deus ex machina." Julian Rushton in Grove Music Online.

Item #36303

Price: $125.00  other currencies