Pigmalion, Acte de Ballet ... exécuté pour la premiere fois par l'Académie Royale de Musique, le 27. Aout 1748. Le prix six livres. [Condensed score]
- Paris: Chez L'Auteur, ruë Saint Honoré, vis-à-vis le Caffé de Dupuis. La Veuve Boivin, ruë Saint Honoré, à la Regle d'Or. M. Lec, 1748
Paris: Chez L'Auteur, ruë Saint Honoré, vis-à-vis le Caffé de Dupuis. La Veuve Boivin, ruë Saint Honoré, à la Regle d'Or. M. Leclair, ruë du Roule, à la Croix d'Or. Avec Approbation et Privilege du Roi, 1748. Oblong folio. Modern quarter dark red leather with marbled boards, black leather title gilt to upper, raised bands on spine in decorative compartments gilt, titling gilt. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 43, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved throughout. Text in French.
Binding very slightly worn and faded. Slightly soiled, foxed, and stained, mostly at margins; very small stain to lower blank margin of approximately 20 leaves. First Edition. Lesure p. 527. Sonneck Dramatic Music p. 137. Hirsch II, 781. BUC p. 872. RISM R163.
First performed in Paris at the Opéra on 27 August 1748; dancers included Dallemand, Lyonnois, Puvignee, Lany, Laval, and Levois.
"Of the eight one-act pieces which Rameau composed at various times between 1748 and 1754 Pigmalion is far and away the best. In quality it is easily the equal of the greatest tragedies and operas-ballets. The librettist, a member of La Poupliniere's circle, was Ballot de Sovot (or Sauvot), the brother of Rameau's solicitor and a fervent partisan of French dramatic music. ... As is usual, the drama comes first and the ballet last. The drama, so often perfunctory, is here treated very seriously and for a while the music is close to tragedy. ... Pigmalion had the most immediate and unequivocal success of all Rameau's works and, with Castor et Pollux, was his most performed opera in the second half of the century." Girdlestone: Jean-Philippe Rameau: His Life and Work, pp. 461-465.
Binding very slightly worn and faded. Slightly soiled, foxed, and stained, mostly at margins; very small stain to lower blank margin of approximately 20 leaves. First Edition. Lesure p. 527. Sonneck Dramatic Music p. 137. Hirsch II, 781. BUC p. 872. RISM R163.
First performed in Paris at the Opéra on 27 August 1748; dancers included Dallemand, Lyonnois, Puvignee, Lany, Laval, and Levois.
"Of the eight one-act pieces which Rameau composed at various times between 1748 and 1754 Pigmalion is far and away the best. In quality it is easily the equal of the greatest tragedies and operas-ballets. The librettist, a member of La Poupliniere's circle, was Ballot de Sovot (or Sauvot), the brother of Rameau's solicitor and a fervent partisan of French dramatic music. ... As is usual, the drama comes first and the ballet last. The drama, so often perfunctory, is here treated very seriously and for a while the music is close to tragedy. ... Pigmalion had the most immediate and unequivocal success of all Rameau's works and, with Castor et Pollux, was his most performed opera in the second half of the century." Girdlestone: Jean-Philippe Rameau: His Life and Work, pp. 461-465.