HAYDN, Joseph 1732-1809

[Hob. XVI: 17, 19, 8]. Three Sonatas for the Pianoforte or Harpsichord ... Engraved from the Authors original Manuscript. Op. 53. Entered at Stationers Hall. Book 1 Pr 7/6

London: Longman & Broderip, [1788].

Folio. Disbound. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), 2-23, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved throughout.

With contemporary London instrument dealer's overpaste to foot of title: "Sold at Gough's Harp and Piano-Forte Musical Instrument Warehouse, No. 4 Sackville Street near the New Bridge ..."

Occasional light wear and foxing; several small tears with minor loss to edges; title and final leaf slightly soiled; repair to inner margin of blank verso of title.

Published in the same year as the edition published in Vienna by Artaria. BUC, p. 469. RISM 3850 (one copy only in the U.S., at the University of Michigan). OCLC 34921913. Worldcat (one copy only in the U.S.).

Hob. XVI:17 is most probably by Johann Gottfried Schwanenberger (1737-1804), "although authenticated by Haydn in ca. 1799-1803." Larson and Feder: The New Grove Haydn, p. 187.

Item #40118

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