Scena e Duetto Parto se vuoi mia vita. [Duet in full score from the opera Lodoiska]. [Copyist manuscript]
- France , 1800
France, 1800. Oblong quarto (211 x 290 mm). Sewn. [i] (title), [i] (blank), 24, [i] (blank) pp. Notated on 11-stave rastrum-ruled paper. Watermark of a bunch of grapes, countermark "Bouchet."
Scored for soprano and alto voices (Lodoviska and Boleslao) accompanied by strings, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, and trumpets, preceded by a recitative accompanied by strings.
With small oval handstamp of the Glasgow Society of Musicians in dark purple ink to lower inner corner of title, with "136" in manuscript in red ink above stamp; "36" in contemporary manuscript to upper margin of title.
Slightly worn and soiled; small stains to blank lower margins of first two and final five leaves. We have not located a contemporary published full score.
La Lodoiska, in three acts with a libretto by Francesco Gonella, was first performed at the Teatro Le Fenice in Venice on 26 January 1796 and in a revised version in two acts in Milan at the Teatro alla Scala on 16 December 1799.
Mayr, a German composer, teacher and writer on music, "was a leading figure in the development of opera seria in the last decade of the 18th century and the first two decades of the 19th. ... [His] first major success, Lodoiska, is a ‘Polish opera’ in the tradition of Cherubini’s Lodoïska (1791) and Faniska (1806). ... Despite their concurrence on the broad outlines of the action, the two versions present significant differences. ... [Mayr] provided numerous replacement arias and duets and expanded the finales of what had been Acts 1 and 2. He added a connecting scene to bridge the original Acts 2 and 3, while eliminating from the original Act 3 several scenes. ... The Biblioteca Civica in Bergamo has a third, incomplete version of Lodoiska (without recitatives), partly in Mayr’s hand, which appears to be an opera semiseria and which is not closely related to the other two versions." Scott L. Balthazar in Grove Music Online.
Scored for soprano and alto voices (Lodoviska and Boleslao) accompanied by strings, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, and trumpets, preceded by a recitative accompanied by strings.
With small oval handstamp of the Glasgow Society of Musicians in dark purple ink to lower inner corner of title, with "136" in manuscript in red ink above stamp; "36" in contemporary manuscript to upper margin of title.
Slightly worn and soiled; small stains to blank lower margins of first two and final five leaves. We have not located a contemporary published full score.
La Lodoiska, in three acts with a libretto by Francesco Gonella, was first performed at the Teatro Le Fenice in Venice on 26 January 1796 and in a revised version in two acts in Milan at the Teatro alla Scala on 16 December 1799.
Mayr, a German composer, teacher and writer on music, "was a leading figure in the development of opera seria in the last decade of the 18th century and the first two decades of the 19th. ... [His] first major success, Lodoiska, is a ‘Polish opera’ in the tradition of Cherubini’s Lodoïska (1791) and Faniska (1806). ... Despite their concurrence on the broad outlines of the action, the two versions present significant differences. ... [Mayr] provided numerous replacement arias and duets and expanded the finales of what had been Acts 1 and 2. He added a connecting scene to bridge the original Acts 2 and 3, while eliminating from the original Act 3 several scenes. ... The Biblioteca Civica in Bergamo has a third, incomplete version of Lodoiska (without recitatives), partly in Mayr’s hand, which appears to be an opera semiseria and which is not closely related to the other two versions." Scott L. Balthazar in Grove Music Online.