Il mio ben quando serrà Rondò Nella Nina, o sia la pazza per amore ... f. 6 1/2. [Copyist manuscript full score]

  • [?]Italy , 1795
By PAISIELLO, Giovanni 1740-1816
[?]Italy, 1795. Oblong quarto (214 x 268 mm). Sewn. [i] (title), 48 pp. Notated in black ink on 10-stave rastrum-ruled paper, with watermark of a 4-legged animal within a circle.

Scored for soprano, accompanied by violins, solo flute, oboes, bassoons, horns, violas, and basses.

With small oval handstamp to title and final page of music of the Glasgow Society of Musicians and "214" in contemporary manuscript to lower inner corner of title; "10 in contemporary manuscript to head of title with manuscript inscription to upper outer corner [?]"I G D L."

Some soiling to blank outer margins of title and final blank leaf. From the opera "Nina, o sia La pazza per amore," set to a libretto by G. Carpani after B.-J. Marsollier des Vivetières, with additions by Lorenzi, first performed in Caserta, San Leucio at the Teatro del Reale Sito di Belvedere on 25 June 1789.

Paisiello, an Italian composer, "was one of the most successful and influential opera composers of the late 18th century." Michael F. Robinson in Grove Music Online.

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