Sonates en Trio pour Deux Violons et la Basse Continue ... Prix en blanc 9₶. Oeuvre IV. [Set of parts]
- Paris: Chez L'auteur, rue St. Benoist proche la porte de l'Abaïe St. germain. Le Sr. Boivin, Marchand, rüe St honoré à la Régle D', 1730
Paris: Chez L'auteur, rue St. Benoist proche la porte de l'Abaïe St. germain. Le Sr. Boivin, Marchand, rüe St honoré à la Régle D'or. Le Sr. Leclerc, Marchand, rüe du Roule à la Croix D'or. Avec Privilége du Roy, 1730. Violino primo: [i] (title), 2-28 pp. (including two blanks)
Violino secondo: [i] (title), 2-30 pp. (including three blanks)
Organo / Violoncello: [i] (title), 2-27 pp. (including two blanks)
First Edition. Lesure p. 379. BUC p. 606. RISM L1317.
Bound with:
MONDONVILLE
Sonates en Trio Pour Deux Violons ou Flutes Avec la Basse Continue ... Dediées a Monsieur le Marquis de la Bourdonnaye. Œuvre Second. Prix 9₶. en blanc. Gravées par L. Hue. Paris: Chez La Veuve Boivin rue St. Honoré à la Regle d'Or. Et Chez Le. Sr. Le Clair rue du Roule à la Croix d'Or, 1734.
Violino primo: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso blank), [i] (blank), 2-23 pp. (including one blank)
Violino secondo: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), 2-23 pp. (including two blanks)
Violoncello: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), 2-21 pp. (including one blank)
The Largo of Sonata VI features an obbligato cello part in the tenor register, notated on its own stave above the lower continuo line.
First Edition. Lesure, p. 437. RISM M3203 (1 copy only in the U.S., at the Library of Congress).
Figured bass to cello parts of both works. With "Bateman" in contemporary manuscript to front pastedown of Violino primo and Violoncello parts, titles, and "Bateman 1745" to blank recto of first page of music of first violin part.
Provenance
Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940), musician and pioneer in the Early Music revival, with his small inventory label to spines and with handstamp ("Dolmetsch Library") and shelfmark ("IID37,1) to foot of first page of music of all parts of Leclair and verso of title of all parts of Mondonville.
3 volumes. Folio. Full contemporary green vellum with titling gilt to uppers, red edges. Engraved.
Binding somewhat worn, rubbed, and bumped. Occasional small stains and minor soiling; blank outer margins of first violin and continuo parts browned and dampstained, with some paper loss, not affecting printed area. Leclair, French composer, violinist, and dancer, "is considered the first great figure of the French violin school ... His influence on French violinists persisted to the end of the 18th century." Neal Zaslaw in Grove Music Online
Mondonville was a French composer, violinist and conductor. "With Jean-Philippe Rameau, he was one of the outstanding figures of French music in the 18th century. ... In 1731 he settled in Paris and made his début as a violinist at the Concert Spirituel on Palm Sunday 1734, on which occasion the Mercure de France praised him for his virtuosity. At about this time he also published his first collections of instrumental music, a set of violin sonatas op. 1 (1733) and the Sonates en trio op. 2 (1734). He was first violin in the Concert de Lille when, in 1738, he published Les sons harmoniques op. 4, a set of violin sonatas with an introduction setting out, for the first time, the technique of playing harmonics on the violin by lightly touching an open string." Marc Signorile in Grove Music Online.
Violino secondo: [i] (title), 2-30 pp. (including three blanks)
Organo / Violoncello: [i] (title), 2-27 pp. (including two blanks)
First Edition. Lesure p. 379. BUC p. 606. RISM L1317.
Bound with:
MONDONVILLE
Sonates en Trio Pour Deux Violons ou Flutes Avec la Basse Continue ... Dediées a Monsieur le Marquis de la Bourdonnaye. Œuvre Second. Prix 9₶. en blanc. Gravées par L. Hue. Paris: Chez La Veuve Boivin rue St. Honoré à la Regle d'Or. Et Chez Le. Sr. Le Clair rue du Roule à la Croix d'Or, 1734.
Violino primo: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso blank), [i] (blank), 2-23 pp. (including one blank)
Violino secondo: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), 2-23 pp. (including two blanks)
Violoncello: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), 2-21 pp. (including one blank)
The Largo of Sonata VI features an obbligato cello part in the tenor register, notated on its own stave above the lower continuo line.
First Edition. Lesure, p. 437. RISM M3203 (1 copy only in the U.S., at the Library of Congress).
Figured bass to cello parts of both works. With "Bateman" in contemporary manuscript to front pastedown of Violino primo and Violoncello parts, titles, and "Bateman 1745" to blank recto of first page of music of first violin part.
Provenance
Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940), musician and pioneer in the Early Music revival, with his small inventory label to spines and with handstamp ("Dolmetsch Library") and shelfmark ("IID37,1) to foot of first page of music of all parts of Leclair and verso of title of all parts of Mondonville.
3 volumes. Folio. Full contemporary green vellum with titling gilt to uppers, red edges. Engraved.
Binding somewhat worn, rubbed, and bumped. Occasional small stains and minor soiling; blank outer margins of first violin and continuo parts browned and dampstained, with some paper loss, not affecting printed area. Leclair, French composer, violinist, and dancer, "is considered the first great figure of the French violin school ... His influence on French violinists persisted to the end of the 18th century." Neal Zaslaw in Grove Music Online
Mondonville was a French composer, violinist and conductor. "With Jean-Philippe Rameau, he was one of the outstanding figures of French music in the 18th century. ... In 1731 he settled in Paris and made his début as a violinist at the Concert Spirituel on Palm Sunday 1734, on which occasion the Mercure de France praised him for his virtuosity. At about this time he also published his first collections of instrumental music, a set of violin sonatas op. 1 (1733) and the Sonates en trio op. 2 (1734). He was first violin in the Concert de Lille when, in 1738, he published Les sons harmoniques op. 4, a set of violin sonatas with an introduction setting out, for the first time, the technique of playing harmonics on the violin by lightly touching an open string." Marc Signorile in Grove Music Online.