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New York: Kalmus 280 pp. Folio, Full score. Complete Works v. XIX/XX. Beatrice and Benedict: Comic Opera in two acts after Shakespeare. Composed between 1860 and 1862, loosely based on Much ado about nothing.. Wraps. Very Good. Folio - 13'' X 10.5''.

Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1935. p.o. signed ffep. Color illustration by Nino Pagot on boards is clean and bright. Sedici tavole fuori testo [Sixteen plates outside text]. I count only 15 plates, perhaps there was a frontis or they are including the front board. Pages browned at edges and becoming brittle. Pages are becoming detached at front. Cloth spine with 3- and 4-inch tears. Chapters on Beethoven, Handel, Palestrina, Gluck, Bach, Monteverdi, Bellini, Rossini, Paganini, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Verdi, Wagner, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Debussy, Puccini, and more. In Italian. . Decorative paper-covered board. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Nino Pagot. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

v xvi, 1 85 pp. [10 x 13¼ inches] oblong quarto in attractive stiff blue wraps. A facsimile of Mozart's autograph manuscript of The Impresario in the Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection, The Pierpont Morgan Library. Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario) A Comedy with Music in One Act, K. 486. Preface by Charles Ryskamp, Director; Introduction by J. Rigbie Turner. Additionally, radiographs of watermarks and the composer's drafts and sketches in front matter. Fine. Multiple copies available. Technically not an opera but a "singspiel," The Impressario is essentially a play, preceded by an overture and interrupted by four arias. It was first performed on February 7, 1786, in a musical competition in the Schonbrunn Palace, sponsored by Joseph II. Mozart's singspiel competed directly with none other than Antonio Salieri's one-act, Prima la Musica e Poi le Parole (First the Music and Then the Words).

New York: Dover, 1974 x, 469 pp. Small folio, full score. Light wear to wraps, text block clean. Dramma giocoso in four acts. '''Unabridged republication of the edition by Georg Schunemann and Kurt Soldan, with German translation of the vocal text by Georg Schunemann, originally published by C.F. Peters, Leipzig, n.d. (publication number 11462. . . . All the preliminary matter and the editors' commentary (Revisionsbericht), originally in German, appear in a new English translation . . . by Stanley Applebaum.''. Wraps. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York: Dover, 1976 xxv, 52 pp. 53 posters, 32 in full color. Small folio, light wear to wraps. Introduction, bibliolgraphy, and notes by Broido. Artists: Ancourt, Barbizet, Bellenger, Bertrand, Buval, Chatiniere, Cheret, Choubrac, Clairin, Clerice, Dola, Dufrene, Dupont, Edel, Flameng, Fraiport (Georges and Gustave), Gottlob, Grasset, Gray, Leandre, Leloir, Levy, Maignan, Morel-Retz, Orazi, Pal, Pean, Regamey, Reutlinger, Rochegrosse, Steinlin, Stop,van den Berge, and Wely. . Wraps. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

London: English National Opera, 1976. unpag., approx. 20 pp. Rubbing and tear to top of spine. A playbill with for Mozart's opera in three acts, Libretto by Abbe Varesco, first performed at Munich on January 29, 1781. Articles by David Cairns, Alfred Einstein. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Facsimile of the composer's manuscript of the full conductor's score of the opera. Plate number 122941. Ricordi's blind stamp to the first pages indicates that the score was printed in October, 1933. Elegant paper-covered boards with recessed paper label. Previous owner's stamp on ffep. Light wear to extremities of binding. A beautiful and important manuscript facsimile difficult to find in the market at this time. In the middle of the night, witches swap children in their cribs. The witches replace the fat, healthy son of "the mother with the king's sickly child. The child taken as the king's and living in luxury struggles to find happiness and in the end escapes to the country where he is near his mother. "Devo esser creduta! Anche Dio non si vede e si crede! E chi ora ride certo non vide il mio bambino com'era.""I must be believed! Even God is not seen and believed! And whoever laughs now certainly did not see my baby as he was. "

New York: G. Schirmer, Inc. 240 pp. Vocal score, 1960s. Protected by mylar cover, but green cloth has darkened at top of spine and top corner of front cover where mylar has chipped. P.O. signature and marks to TOC and final aria, where the part of Edgar's (tenor) entrances are marked. Otherwise Fine. Based on Walter Scott's ''The Bride of Lammermoor.''. Green Cloth. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Dover, 1985 225 pp. Full score, small folio. Some light bumping to extremities, a small crease in bottom right of front wrap. Text clean and white. Text in German. Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. Originally published: Die Zauberflote. Leipzig : C.F. Peters, 18--.. Wraps. Very Good. 9'' X 12''.