Duetto Buffo La cosa non và netta Del Sigr. D Giovanni Paisiello ... delle Vane Gelosie In Napoli presso Luigi Marescalchi. [Copyist musical manuscript score]
Napoli: ca. 1790.
Oblong quarto (215 x 264 mm). Contemporary wrappers with manuscript titling in red and blue within hand-coloured decorative engraved border to upper incorporating floral and architectural motifs, drapery, and, in the center, a pair of kissing doves, cupid's bow and arrow, and a vase filled with flowers. Notated in black ink on 10-stave rastrum-ruled paper. 63, [i] (blank) pp.
Scored for soprano (Aurora), bass (Trifone), oboes, horns, and strings.
Wrappers slightly worn, with small tears and soiling to margins and minor stains to outer corner of upper. Occasional minor soiling and foxing throughout; small loss to blank lower margin of third leaf.
Le vane gelosie, to a libretto by Lorenzi, premiered in Naples at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in the spring or early summer of 1790.
Paisiello "was one of the most successful and influential opera composers of the late 18th century. ... Elfrida (1792), the first of two operas with texts written for him by Calzabigi, is unusual in allocating all solo songs to the principal characters." Michael F. Robinson in Grove Music Online
Luigi Marescalchi (1745-1812) was an Italian music publisher and composer. "About 1770 he began publishing in Venice and, probably in mid-1773, took the violinist and composer Carlo Canobbio (1741–1822) into partnership. Although the enterprise was temporarily abandoned about 1775, the brief period of its duration marked the revival of music publishing in Italy after 70 years of almost total inactivity. In Venice Marescalchi issued some 70 engraved publications, most in oblong format, evenly distributed between vocal pieces (mainly full scores and orchestral parts of single numbers from operas performed in Venice) and instrumental works (ballet, dance, chamber music and opera overtures). Anfossi, Boccherini, Naumann, Paisiello and Marescalchi himself were the composers of more than half of this output. ... On 15 November 1785 he obtained an exclusive royal licence for the printing of music in Naples, and, in partnership with his brother Francesco, he began to publish there in 1786. He established himself first in the new Palazzo in the strada di Chiaia beside the convent of S Orsola; he was still there late in 1789 but between then and the closing of his business in 1799 he moved to 32 Vicola della Campana, Largo di Castello. For about his first year in Naples he used as retailers the booksellers Antonio Hermil and Giuseppe Maria Porcelli; thereafter he opened his own shop, where he sold music and instruments as well as running a hire library and a flourishing copisteria. His engraved publications of instrumental music included several works by Haydn and Pleyel and an early edition of Mozart’s violin and viola duo k423, probably the first work by Mozart to be published in Italy. He published many operatic excerpts in full score, particularly of Bianchi, Cimarosa, P.A. Guglielmi and Paisiello." Richard Macnutt in Grove Music Online
A manuscript originating in the copyist workshop of Marescalchi, an important Italian music publisher associated with Paisiello, most likely produced around the time that Le vane gelosie premiered in Naples.
Item #40908
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