Semiramide Ouvertura ... Ridotta per il Piano Forte Solo. [Copyist manuscript piano transcription]
- Vienna , 1823
Vienna, 1823. Oblong folio. Sewn. [i] (title), 24, [iii] (blank) pp. Watermark of a half-moon. Notated on 8-stave rastrum-ruled paper.
"Pianoforte a 2 mani: Ba. XXVII" in purple pencil to lower inner corner of title.
Very slightly worn; some minor showthrough; a few small stains to final blank page. Semiramide, a melodramma tragico in two acts to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi after Voltaire's "Sémiramis," was first performed in Venice at the Teatro La Fenice on 3 February 1823.
"The opera is prefaced by one of Rossini’s finest overtures, a powerfully worked version of the familiar Rossini archetype, containing, unusually for him, thematic material that recurs in the opera. ...
With Semiramide, Rossini brought his Italian career to a spectacular close. After a series of operas in which the primary areas of interest were either vocal or architectural, Rossini once again drew vocal, dramatic, and architectural elements into harmony with one another." Richard Osborne in Grove Music Online.
"Pianoforte a 2 mani: Ba. XXVII" in purple pencil to lower inner corner of title.
Very slightly worn; some minor showthrough; a few small stains to final blank page. Semiramide, a melodramma tragico in two acts to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi after Voltaire's "Sémiramis," was first performed in Venice at the Teatro La Fenice on 3 February 1823.
"The opera is prefaced by one of Rossini’s finest overtures, a powerfully worked version of the familiar Rossini archetype, containing, unusually for him, thematic material that recurs in the opera. ...
With Semiramide, Rossini brought his Italian career to a spectacular close. After a series of operas in which the primary areas of interest were either vocal or architectural, Rossini once again drew vocal, dramatic, and architectural elements into harmony with one another." Richard Osborne in Grove Music Online.