BOCCHERINI, Luigi 1743-1805

Sei Trio Per due Violini e Violoncello Dedicatti a S.A.R. Don. Carlo Principe di Asturias ... Opera IX ... Prix 9₶. [Parts]

Paris: Chez Mr. Venier Editeur de plusieurs Ouvrages de Musique rue St. Thomas du Louvre vis-à-vis le Chateau d'Eau. Et aux adresse[!] ordinaires. A Lyon Aux adresses ordinaires de Musique. Avec Privilege du Roi, [1771].

Folio. Disbound. In a marbled board portfolio with small rectangular manuscript title label to upper.

Violino primo: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] ("[Catalogue] De Musique Instrumentale que Mr. Venier a fait graver"), 2-13, [i] (blank) pp.
Violino secondo: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), 2-13, [i] (blank) pp.
Basso: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), 2-13, [i] (blank) pp.

Titles within decorative border. Engraved throughout.

Light uniform browning; occasional minor soiling, small stains, and tears; first signatures detached; publisher's catalogue trimmed at upper margin, affecting title and just touching text at outer margin.

A very good copy overall.

First Edition. Gérard 89-94 (pp. 98, 99, 101-104). BUC p. 118. RISM B3075 (no copies recorded in the U.S.).

"A prolific composer, particularly of chamber music, with a distinctive and highly wrought style, [Boccherini] is the chief representative of Latin instrumental music during the Viennese Classical period." Christian Speck and Stanley Sadie in Grove Music Online

Boccherini designated the present work as an "opera grande" in his autograph catalogue. It became very popular and was published in four further countries in the following fifteen years.

Item #40609

Price: $1,200.00  other currencies