GUGLIELMI, Pietro Carlo ca. 1763-1817

Ah. Cara d'amore Duetto. [Copyist manuscript full score]

[?]Scotland: ca. 1804.

Folio (298 x 240 mm). Sewn. [i] (title), 30 pp. Notated in brown ink on 10-stave rastrum-ruled paper, with J. Larking watermark dated 1802.

Scored for soprano and tenor voices accompanied by strings, clarinets, horns, and bassoon.

With small oval handstamp of the Glasgow Society of Musicians and "100" in contemporary manuscript to lower inner corner of title; "11" in contemporary manuscript to head; May 10" in pencil to p. 24.

Slightly soiled.

Drawn from the opera 'L’equivoco fra gli sposi,' first performed in Naples at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in 1804.

Guglielmi, an Italian composer, was in Madrid in 1791 "where his first opera, Demetrio, had a successful première. By 1797 he had returned to settle in Naples for several years, with theatrical commissions taking him to Rome, Palermo, and, briefly in 1805, to Pavia and Venice. ... In 1813, during his tenure as house composer at La Scala, Milan, three of his operas had their premières and his reputation as a composer of international status was established. On his return to Massa in 1814 he composed a Te Deum in honour of the Archduchess Maria Beatrice d’Este; two years later he was made maestro di cappella onorario at her court. He continued to produce operas occasionally until his death in Naples in 1817 during a production of Paolo e Virginia." James L. Jackman, Kay Lipton, and Mary Hunter in Grove Music Online.

Item #40222

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