Lully, Jean Baptiste. (1632–1687) [Quinault, Philippe. (1635–1688)]. Phaeton. Tragédie en musique. [LWV 61, LIBRETTO] - SIGNED. Paris: Christophe Ballard. 1683. First edition. Tragédie en musique representée par l'Academie royale de musique devant Sa Majesté à Versailles, le sixième jour de Janvier mil six cens quatre-vingts-trois. 4to. [8] - 60 pp. (pagination error on p. 52). Fine woodcut devices on title and beginning/end of each act. Finely bound in full purple leather, spine with four raised bands and gilt decorative stamps. Restoration to title and pages 41 - 60, initialled "RB" in red pencil at title and other pages, otherwise very fine. With the autograph paraph of the composer at the conclusion of the final page, "Lully." Later engraved portrait (ca. 1840, by Tony Johannot, engraved by Lacour) of the composer bound in at conclusion. OCLC records only 3 copies of this rare libretto worldwide.
The rare first edition of the libretto for Jean-Baptiste Lully's Phaëton, published in 1683 by Christophe Ballard for sale to audience members during the first run of performances, which began January 6 of that year at Versailles. After its first performance, it was given again many times in Paris, becoming one of Lully's most popular works and given the nickname of "l'opéra du peuple." Based on an episode in Ovid's "Metamorphoses," like many of the collaborations with Lully's favorite librettist, Philippe Quinault, Phaëton is filled with solar symbolism--a reference to the "Sun King," Louis XIV.
"The tragedies lyriques. of Lully and Quinault are large-scale stage works with continuous music in which the subject matter, drawn from Greek mythology, or more rarely from Italian and Spanish chivalric romances, is spread over five acts. They mark the real beginning of French opera." TNG Vol. 11 pp. 320-321.
The rare first edition of the libretto for Jean-Baptiste Lully's Phaëton, published in 1683 by Christophe Ballard for sale to audience members during the first run of performances, which began January 6 of that year at Versailles. After its first performance, it was given again many times in Paris, becoming one of Lully's most popular works and given the nickname of "l'opéra du peuple." Based on an episode in Ovid's "Metamorphoses," like many of the collaborations with Lully's favorite librettist, Philippe Quinault, Phaëton is filled with solar symbolism--a reference to the "Sun King," Louis XIV.
"The tragedies lyriques. of Lully and Quinault are large-scale stage works with continuous music in which the subject matter, drawn from Greek mythology, or more rarely from Italian and Spanish chivalric romances, is spread over five acts. They mark the real beginning of French opera." TNG Vol. 11 pp. 320-321.
Lully, Jean Baptiste. (1632–1687) [Quinault, Philippe. (1635–1688)]. Phaeton. Tragédie en musique. [LWV 61, LIBRETTO] - SIGNED. Paris: Christophe Ballard. 1683. First edition. Tragédie en musique representée par l'Academie royale de musique devant Sa Majesté à Versailles, le sixième jour de Janvier mil six cens quatre-vingts-trois. 4to. [8] - 60 pp. (pagination error on p. 52). Fine woodcut devices on title and beginning/end of each act. Finely bound in full purple leather, spine with four raised bands and gilt decorative stamps. Restoration to title and pages 41 - 60, initialled "RB" in red pencil at title and other pages, otherwise very fine. With the autograph paraph of the composer at the conclusion of the final page, "Lully." Later engraved portrait (ca. 1840, by Tony Johannot, engraved by Lacour) of the composer bound in at conclusion. OCLC records only 3 copies of this rare libretto worldwide.
The rare first edition of the libretto for Jean-Baptiste Lully's Phaëton, published in 1683 by Christophe Ballard for sale to audience members during the first run of performances, which began January 6 of that year at Versailles. After its first performance, it was given again many times in Paris, becoming one of Lully's most popular works and given the nickname of "l'opéra du peuple." Based on an episode in Ovid's "Metamorphoses," like many of the collaborations with Lully's favorite librettist, Philippe Quinault, Phaëton is filled with solar symbolism--a reference to the "Sun King," Louis XIV.
"The tragedies lyriques. of Lully and Quinault are large-scale stage works with continuous music in which the subject matter, drawn from Greek mythology, or more rarely from Italian and Spanish chivalric romances, is spread over five acts. They mark the real beginning of French opera." TNG Vol. 11 pp. 320-321.
The rare first edition of the libretto for Jean-Baptiste Lully's Phaëton, published in 1683 by Christophe Ballard for sale to audience members during the first run of performances, which began January 6 of that year at Versailles. After its first performance, it was given again many times in Paris, becoming one of Lully's most popular works and given the nickname of "l'opéra du peuple." Based on an episode in Ovid's "Metamorphoses," like many of the collaborations with Lully's favorite librettist, Philippe Quinault, Phaëton is filled with solar symbolism--a reference to the "Sun King," Louis XIV.
"The tragedies lyriques. of Lully and Quinault are large-scale stage works with continuous music in which the subject matter, drawn from Greek mythology, or more rarely from Italian and Spanish chivalric romances, is spread over five acts. They mark the real beginning of French opera." TNG Vol. 11 pp. 320-321.