La Guirlande Acte de Ballet ... Exécuté pour la premiere fois par L'Academie Royale de Musique au mois de Septembre 1751. Le Prix six Livres. Gravé par Ls. Hue. [Full score]
- Paris: Chez L'Autheur, Rüe de Richelieu, vis a vis La Bibliothéque du Roy. La Veuve Boivin Marchande Rüe St. Honoré à la Regle d'O, 1751
Paris: Chez L'Autheur, Rüe de Richelieu, vis a vis La Bibliothéque du Roy. La Veuve Boivin Marchande Rüe St. Honoré à la Regle d'Or. Mr. Le Clair Marchand Rüe du Roule à la Croix d'Or. Avec Approbation et Privilege du Roy, 1751. Oblong folio. Contemporary mid-tan mottled calf with raised bands on spine in compartments gilt, dark red leather title label gilt to spine, red edges. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 54 pp. Engraved throughout.
With contemporary facsimile signature handstamp of composer François Francoeur (1698-1787) to lower margin of pp. 7 and 9.
Binding slightly worn, expertly rebacked and recornered. Occasional light soiling, browning, foxing, and small stains; small binder's holes to blank inner margin of first leaf.
An attractive copy overall. First Edition. Rare. Lesure p. 526. Sonneck Dramatic Music p. 136. Hirsch II, 774. BUC p. 871. RISM R145
La Guirlande, to a libretto by Marmontel, was first performed in Paris at the Opéra on 21 Sept 1751 "for the birth of the Duke of Burgundy, with Les sauvages (from Les Indes galantes) and Les génies tutélaires (by F. Rebel and F. Francoeur)." Graham Sadler and Thomas Christensen in Grove Music Online. Performers in the premiere included singers Marie Fel and Pierre de Jélyotte and dancers Teresa Vestris and Jean-Barthélemy Lany.
"It was with La Guirlande that the Rameau revival began on June 22, 1903, when it was played in the Garden of the Schola Cantorum, together with the prologue of Campra's 'Fêtes vénitiennes' and Duni's 'Les Sabots'. Rameau had not been staged in his native country for more than a century. After this performance Debussy, with understandable enthusiasm exclaimed, 'Vive Rameau, à bas Gluck!' ... With finesse and a certain realism of sentiment 'La Guirlande' keeps delicately to a middle path, verging a little more to the happy than to the unhappy side of life's road. Scene 6 is particularly sensitive. ... Of the symphonies, all pastoral, the most personal is the 'air gracieux' for flutes and strings in G minor (Sc. 6)." Girdlestone pp. 465-66.
The first edition of Rameau's finely-wrought ballet, the first modern performance of which attracted the admiration of Claude Debussy and inaugurated the Rameau revival at the beginning of the 20th century.
With distinguished provenance, having belonged to François Francoeur, a fellow 18th century composer and a celebrated musician in his own right who, together with Rameau, contributed to the musical component of the festivities for the birth of the Duke of Burgundy in 1751.
With contemporary facsimile signature handstamp of composer François Francoeur (1698-1787) to lower margin of pp. 7 and 9.
Binding slightly worn, expertly rebacked and recornered. Occasional light soiling, browning, foxing, and small stains; small binder's holes to blank inner margin of first leaf.
An attractive copy overall. First Edition. Rare. Lesure p. 526. Sonneck Dramatic Music p. 136. Hirsch II, 774. BUC p. 871. RISM R145
La Guirlande, to a libretto by Marmontel, was first performed in Paris at the Opéra on 21 Sept 1751 "for the birth of the Duke of Burgundy, with Les sauvages (from Les Indes galantes) and Les génies tutélaires (by F. Rebel and F. Francoeur)." Graham Sadler and Thomas Christensen in Grove Music Online. Performers in the premiere included singers Marie Fel and Pierre de Jélyotte and dancers Teresa Vestris and Jean-Barthélemy Lany.
"It was with La Guirlande that the Rameau revival began on June 22, 1903, when it was played in the Garden of the Schola Cantorum, together with the prologue of Campra's 'Fêtes vénitiennes' and Duni's 'Les Sabots'. Rameau had not been staged in his native country for more than a century. After this performance Debussy, with understandable enthusiasm exclaimed, 'Vive Rameau, à bas Gluck!' ... With finesse and a certain realism of sentiment 'La Guirlande' keeps delicately to a middle path, verging a little more to the happy than to the unhappy side of life's road. Scene 6 is particularly sensitive. ... Of the symphonies, all pastoral, the most personal is the 'air gracieux' for flutes and strings in G minor (Sc. 6)." Girdlestone pp. 465-66.
The first edition of Rameau's finely-wrought ballet, the first modern performance of which attracted the admiration of Claude Debussy and inaugurated the Rameau revival at the beginning of the 20th century.
With distinguished provenance, having belonged to François Francoeur, a fellow 18th century composer and a celebrated musician in his own right who, together with Rameau, contributed to the musical component of the festivities for the birth of the Duke of Burgundy in 1751.