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La Sonnambula (Incomplete first edition)

Composer: Bellini, Vincenzo


Category: Opera Vocal Scores

Product ID: 9762

Date: 1831 (dated 1836)

Publisher: Ricordi

Format: Separate numbers bound together, oblong folio, engraved. Drop titles

Binding: Old half-leather

Price: £125.00

Description: One section (pn. 5279) is missing. Binding fairly worn, leather scuffed, boards bowed. Later repair to front hinge, some loose pp (gutta-percha binding). First page of music is badly creased and dust-stained. Margins irregularly cut, some close with some loss to piano l.h. (minor). A few old markings. Amateur paper label to front board

Notes: The first edition of the vocal score (Weinstock p.326), Ricordi pn.5271-5288 (missing 5279). On the first p. of music is written "Per(?) il Direttore dei Cori" and, in a different hand "Dublin 1836". According to Loewenberg the fp in Dublin was January 1837 (in Italian). There is a small piece of contemporary ms pinned in to one of the choruses


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