ROSSINI, Gioachino 1792-1868

Ricciardo e Zoraide. Terzetto "Cruda sorte" from the opera. [Copyist manuscript full score]. Of Italian provenance. Ca. 1830

Oblong folio (238 x 305 mm). Sewn. Notated in black ink on 16-stave rastrum-ruled wove paper. 74 unnumbered pp. Watermark "C & R Turner," English papermakers active in the early- to mid-19th century.

Slightly worn; minor staining and soiling mainly to first and final three leaves; small tears to margins of first and last leaves repaired with archival tape; several old repairs with clear tape to blank margins; first signature and final three leaves detached.

Possibly derived from the first printed edition of the full score published by Leopoldo Ratti Gio. Batta Cencetti e Comp. in Rome in 1829 (see Rognoni 26, p. 447 and OPAC SBN ITICCURMR262045).

Ricciardo e Zoraide was first performed in Naples at the Teatro San Carlo on 3 December 1818.

"Musically, the work shows Rossini’s evolving powers in handling such things as choral writing, orchestration and accompanied recitatives being put at the service of stereotyped forms and picture-book characterization." Richard Osborne in Grove Music Online

"The most important Italian composer of the first half of the 19th century, Rossini transformed the form and content of Italian opera, displacing dated and dying traditions inherited from such composers as Cimarosa and Paisiello and establishing in their place a largely new set of procedures. Though best known for his comic operas – and for music that is sensuous, brilliant and rhythmically vital – Rossini’s contribution to the evolution of opera seria and to stage works of mixed genres is equally important, making him Verdi’s most significant forerunner. Rossini is also an important figure in the development of 19th-century French (and, more tangentially, German) opera. Using his enormous prestige to effect a blending of French and Italian traditions during his first residency in Paris between 1824 and 1829, Rossini created for the Paris Opéra two works – the comic Le Comte Ory and the political epic Guillaume Tell – which were to have a significant influence on composers as different as Adam and Meyerbeer, Offenbach and Wagner." Philip Gossett and Richard Osborne in Grove Music Online.

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