Verdi, Giuseppe. (1813-1901). Otello. Dramma Lirico in Quattro Atti. . Milan: Ricordi. [1887]. First edition. Versi di Arrigo Boito. Riduzioni di Michele Saladino. Pianoforte Solo. 27,7x19,5 cm; (8), 214 pp. [PN] 51107. Ricordi blindstamp of 1887. Original gilt-stamped crimson boards. Spine chipped at extremities, boards worn, 1887 ownership inscription on half-title. Internally in very fine condition. Rare first edition of the version for pianoforte solo, parallel to Hopkinson 63A.
"Otello was first performed at La Scala in February, 1887... Verdi's ears were open to all that they encountered in Rossini, Donizetti and Mercadante, in Meyerbeer, Berlioz and Wagner... he found things that could become his own. Otello results from Verdi's lifetime of learning by trial and effort, by striving, experimenting, discarding and refining, how best to give musical shape to ideas about musical drama that guided him from the start. It crowns his career as an operatic tragedian." (New Grove, 19: 657).
"Otello was first performed at La Scala in February, 1887... Verdi's ears were open to all that they encountered in Rossini, Donizetti and Mercadante, in Meyerbeer, Berlioz and Wagner... he found things that could become his own. Otello results from Verdi's lifetime of learning by trial and effort, by striving, experimenting, discarding and refining, how best to give musical shape to ideas about musical drama that guided him from the start. It crowns his career as an operatic tragedian." (New Grove, 19: 657).
Verdi, Giuseppe. (1813-1901). Otello. Dramma Lirico in Quattro Atti. . Milan: Ricordi. [1887]. First edition. Versi di Arrigo Boito. Riduzioni di Michele Saladino. Pianoforte Solo. 27,7x19,5 cm; (8), 214 pp. [PN] 51107. Ricordi blindstamp of 1887. Original gilt-stamped crimson boards. Spine chipped at extremities, boards worn, 1887 ownership inscription on half-title. Internally in very fine condition. Rare first edition of the version for pianoforte solo, parallel to Hopkinson 63A.
"Otello was first performed at La Scala in February, 1887... Verdi's ears were open to all that they encountered in Rossini, Donizetti and Mercadante, in Meyerbeer, Berlioz and Wagner... he found things that could become his own. Otello results from Verdi's lifetime of learning by trial and effort, by striving, experimenting, discarding and refining, how best to give musical shape to ideas about musical drama that guided him from the start. It crowns his career as an operatic tragedian." (New Grove, 19: 657).
"Otello was first performed at La Scala in February, 1887... Verdi's ears were open to all that they encountered in Rossini, Donizetti and Mercadante, in Meyerbeer, Berlioz and Wagner... he found things that could become his own. Otello results from Verdi's lifetime of learning by trial and effort, by striving, experimenting, discarding and refining, how best to give musical shape to ideas about musical drama that guided him from the start. It crowns his career as an operatic tragedian." (New Grove, 19: 657).