Anacreon Ballet en un Acte détaché des Surprises de l'Amour ... Representé sur le Theâtre de l'Academie Royale de Musique en 1757. Prix en blanc 6tt. [Full score]
- Paris: Chez Mr. le Clerc rue du Roule a la Croix d'or. Mr. Bayard rue St. Honoré a la Regle d'or. Mlle. Castagnery rue des Prouvaires, 1757
Paris: Chez Mr. le Clerc rue du Roule a la Croix d'or. Mr. Bayard rue St. Honoré a la Regle d'or. Mlle. Castagnery rue des Prouvaires a la Musique Royale. Mr. Daumont rue de la Feronnerie a l'Aigle d'or. Avec Privilege du Roy, 1757. Folio. Full 18th century green vellum with dark red leather title label gilt to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), 65, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved throughout.
Binding slightly worn and warped. Slightly browned, heavier to some leaves; margins slightly soiled; occasional foxing; final page lacking but supplied in printed facsimile. First Edition, [?]first issue. Lesure p. 525. BUC p. 872. RISM R124. Both Lesure and RISM describe two issues, distinguished by slightly different imprints. In the present issue (the first listed by RISM), the fourth distributor is "Mr. Daumont;" in the other issue, the fourth distributor is "Le Menu."
Anacreon, an "acte de ballet" to a libretto by Jean-Louis de Cahusac constituting the third part of the opera-ballet Les Surprises de l'Amour, was first performed at Fontainebleau on 23 October 1754.
"Les Surprises de l'Amour, with text by Rameau's friend Gentil-Bernard, was first performed in Versailles at the Theatre des Petits Appartements in November of 1748. It consisted then [of] a prologue in honour of the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, 'Le Retour d'Astree,' and two acts, 'la lyre enchantee' and 'Adonis." Nine years later, [on May 31st] 1757, it was given at the Opera, without the prologue and with the addition of the third act, 'Anacreon.' " Girdlestone p. 451.
Intended for a projected opéra-ballet entitled Les beaux jours de l’Amour, Anacreon is one of two independent works by Rameau with the same title; the other, to a libretto by Pierre-Joseph Bemard, eventually became part of Les surprises de l’Amour. The aging poet Anacreon (bass) prepares a betrothal celebration for his two protégés Chloë (soprano) and Bathylle (haute-contre) but teasingly pretends that it is for his own betrothal to Chloë." Graham Sadler in Grove Music Online.
Binding slightly worn and warped. Slightly browned, heavier to some leaves; margins slightly soiled; occasional foxing; final page lacking but supplied in printed facsimile. First Edition, [?]first issue. Lesure p. 525. BUC p. 872. RISM R124. Both Lesure and RISM describe two issues, distinguished by slightly different imprints. In the present issue (the first listed by RISM), the fourth distributor is "Mr. Daumont;" in the other issue, the fourth distributor is "Le Menu."
Anacreon, an "acte de ballet" to a libretto by Jean-Louis de Cahusac constituting the third part of the opera-ballet Les Surprises de l'Amour, was first performed at Fontainebleau on 23 October 1754.
"Les Surprises de l'Amour, with text by Rameau's friend Gentil-Bernard, was first performed in Versailles at the Theatre des Petits Appartements in November of 1748. It consisted then [of] a prologue in honour of the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, 'Le Retour d'Astree,' and two acts, 'la lyre enchantee' and 'Adonis." Nine years later, [on May 31st] 1757, it was given at the Opera, without the prologue and with the addition of the third act, 'Anacreon.' " Girdlestone p. 451.
Intended for a projected opéra-ballet entitled Les beaux jours de l’Amour, Anacreon is one of two independent works by Rameau with the same title; the other, to a libretto by Pierre-Joseph Bemard, eventually became part of Les surprises de l’Amour. The aging poet Anacreon (bass) prepares a betrothal celebration for his two protégés Chloë (soprano) and Bathylle (haute-contre) but teasingly pretends that it is for his own betrothal to Chloë." Graham Sadler in Grove Music Online.