Sacchini, Antonio. (1730 - 1786). Oedipe à Colone, Opéra en trois actes, de Mr Guillard, représenté pour la première fois, devant leur majestés à Versailles le 4 janvier 1786 et par l'Académie royale de Musique le 1er fevrier 1787. Paris: Chez Imbault professeur et éditeur de musique. Second edition. 13.5in x 10.25in (34cm x 26cm). 235 pp. Engraved throughout. [PN] 100. Mottled blue paper boards, red leather title and ownership plate to front cover. Boards rubbed, internally in fine condition throughout. Provenance from Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf (1738 – 1815), French naturalized German industrialist famous for founding the royal manufacture of printed cottons of Jouy-en-Josas where the toile de Jouy was manufactured.
The most important work of "a leading figure in serious opera of the late 18th century... Sacchini's last completed opera, produced posthumously and widely acclaimed by contemporaries and historians alike... with his masterpiece, Oedipe, Sacchini admirably achieved a synthesis of Italian melodic style and Gluckian principles within a French dramatic framework ." (Grove Online)
The most important work of "a leading figure in serious opera of the late 18th century... Sacchini's last completed opera, produced posthumously and widely acclaimed by contemporaries and historians alike... with his masterpiece, Oedipe, Sacchini admirably achieved a synthesis of Italian melodic style and Gluckian principles within a French dramatic framework ." (Grove Online)
Sacchini, Antonio. (1730 - 1786). Oedipe à Colone, Opéra en trois actes, de Mr Guillard, représenté pour la première fois, devant leur majestés à Versailles le 4 janvier 1786 et par l'Académie royale de Musique le 1er fevrier 1787. Paris: Chez Imbault professeur et éditeur de musique. Second edition. 13.5in x 10.25in (34cm x 26cm). 235 pp. Engraved throughout. [PN] 100. Mottled blue paper boards, red leather title and ownership plate to front cover. Boards rubbed, internally in fine condition throughout. Provenance from Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf (1738 – 1815), French naturalized German industrialist famous for founding the royal manufacture of printed cottons of Jouy-en-Josas where the toile de Jouy was manufactured.
The most important work of "a leading figure in serious opera of the late 18th century... Sacchini's last completed opera, produced posthumously and widely acclaimed by contemporaries and historians alike... with his masterpiece, Oedipe, Sacchini admirably achieved a synthesis of Italian melodic style and Gluckian principles within a French dramatic framework ." (Grove Online)
The most important work of "a leading figure in serious opera of the late 18th century... Sacchini's last completed opera, produced posthumously and widely acclaimed by contemporaries and historians alike... with his masterpiece, Oedipe, Sacchini admirably achieved a synthesis of Italian melodic style and Gluckian principles within a French dramatic framework ." (Grove Online)