MERCADANTE, Saverio 1795-1870 and Giuseppina Guacci 1807-1848

Il Sogno Poesia della Signora Giuseppina Guacci ... Espressamente composta, e Deda, al merito distinto di G. O. Cartagenova. [Copyist manuscript full score and cello part]

Naples: [ca. 1850].

Small folio (217 x 302 mm). Sewn. Notated in black ink on 10-stave rastrum-ruled paper. Score [i] (title), 18, [i] (blank) pp.; cello part [i] (blank), 4, [i] (blank) pp. Text in Italian and German.

Scored for baritone voice, obbligato cello, and piano.

Slightly worn and browned; some showthrough; occasional small stains.

Mercadante, an Italian composer, conductor, and teacher, was "a leading opera composer who also encouraged the revival of Italian instrumental music." Michael Wittmann in Grove Music Online

The dedicatee, Giovanni Orazio Cartagenova (1800-1841), was an Italian baritone.

A poignant aria set to text by noted poet Giuseppina Guacci (1807-1848), rendered in a fluent copyist's hand.

Item #41290

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