FIORAVANTI, Valentino 1764-1837

Aria Vedrai con tuo periglio. [Copyist manuscript for voice and piano]

Italy: ca. 1830.

Oblong quarto (229 x 268 mm). Sewn. [i] (title), 10 pp. Notated in black ink on 10-stave rastrum-ruled paper.

With small oval handstamp of the Glasgow Society of Musicians and "70" in contemporary manuscript to lower inner corner of title; "11" in black ink to head of title; handstamp repeated to final page of music.

Very slightly soiled.

Fioravanti "conducted at various theatres and composed his first opera, the intermezzo Le avventure di Bertoldino (1784). In 1787 the Teatro del Fondo in Naples commissioned a comic opera, Gl’inganni fortunati (1788), which secured his fame. In Naples Fioravanti was a formidable rival to Paisiello, P.A. Guglielmi and Cimarosa. He toured Italy, writing both comic and serious operas for all the major theatres. His most popular, Le cantatrici villane, was written for Naples in 1799 during the revolutionary turmoil. An instant success, it was performed throughout Europe, becoming one of his few works to be revived in the 20th century (Vienna, 1907; Rome, 1951)." Marvin Tartak in Grove Music Online.

Item #40249

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