Corelli, Arcangelo. (1653–1713) [Cartier, Jean-Baptiste. (1765–1841)]. Sonate a violino e violono o cimbalo / da Arcangelo Corelle da Fusignano. Opera Quinta. Parte Prima. Together with: Preludi Allemande Correnti Gigue Sarabande Gavotte e Follia. Parte Seconda. THE COPY OF JEAN-BAPTISTE CARTIER. London: Printed for and Sold by Benjamin Cooke. [ca. 1735]. Engraved throughout, without PN. The final page states 'The Whole Engraven by T Cross.' Title; 1-69. Violin and Continuo score. Title page with portrait vignette in upper left corner. Title page to Parte Seconda is page 38, preceding sonata vii. Signed at the foot of the first page of music by the important violinist Jean-Baptiste Cartier. Half brown leather, gilt stamping to spine, textured green boards. Very clean and crisp throughout, an excellent copy.


Corelli's Opus 5 collection of violin sonatas was composed in 1700 and concludes with the famous "La Follia," a series of 24 variations on a popular Portuguese tune. Though the source material was used by other composers as well, this treatement of it has become so linked with Corelli that Rachmaninoff later called his own musings on the tune "Variations on a Theme of Corelli."


"From 1791 to 1821 [Cartier] was assistant leader of the Paris Opéra orchestra. In addition, he was a member of the court orchestra from 1804 to 1830, serving under both Napoleon and the Bourbon regime....[As author of "L'art du violon"] Cartier secured for himself an important place in the history of the violin.” (Boris Schwarz, Grove Online)