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Alceste : tragedia / messa in musica dal signore cavagliere Cristoforo Gluck ; dedicata a Sua Altezza Reale, l'arciduca Pietro Leopoldo, gran-duca di Toscana, etc. etc. etc.

Record ID
113540
Creator
Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787.
Object title

Alceste : tragedia / messa in musica dal signore cavagliere Cristoforo Gluck ; dedicata a Sua Altezza Reale, l'arciduca Pietro Leopoldo, gran-duca di Toscana, etc. etc. etc.

Uniform title
Alceste
Published
In Vienna : Nella Stamparia Aulica di Giovanni Tomaso de Trattnern, 1769.
Provenance
From the library of Monseigneur le Prince de Turenne, Grand Chambellan de France.
Notes
Italian words.
Libretto by Ranieri de Calzabigi.
T.p.: p. [1]; composer's letter to "Altezza Reale": p. [3]; half t.p.: p. [5]; "Argomento": p. [7]; "Personaggi": p. [8]; "Mutazioni di scene": p. [9]; "Balli pantomimi" and "Balli balati": p. [10]; librettist's dedication to Maria Teresa: p. [11].
Signatures: A4, B2, C-Y4, Z2, Aa-Gg4, Hh.
Similar to Hopkinson 37 A, with the preliminaries reordered.
First ed.
Library's copy in original blue wrappers.
Associated names
Calzabigi, Ranieri de, 1714-1795, librettist.
Turenne, Prince de, Grand Chambellan de France, former owner.