‎ROSSINI Giachino - Ferdinand HEROLD :‎
‎Mosé in Egitto . Azione Tragico-sacra . Poesia del Signor Andrea Leone Tottola. Musica del Signor Gioachino Rossini , ridotta per il Cembalo dal Signor F. Herold.‎

‎18. Paris, chez Boieldieu Jeune, Rue de Richelieu, s.d. ( before March 1824), in-4°, engraved title + 331 pp with engraved music, plate number 1027. Bound in contemporary brown half roan, marbled boards, binding with traces of use, inner joint weak, interior with the usual minor stains and thumbing. In all still a fine/good copy. Rare arrangement of a Rossini opera for the harpsichord ( cembalo ) by Ferdinand Herold . The genesis of this publication lies in Naples in the year 1815 where the composers have met when they both produced an opera at the Theatro San Carlo. Herold, who was a musical tutor to the daughters of King Joachim Murat left the city the same year, after the execution of the king. The Rossini opera was staged at the San Carlo Thatre in 1819. Herold's arrangement was published by Boieldieu jeune (François-Adrien Boieldieu 1775 - 1834). The relations between Herold and the composer-publisher Boieldieu were in 1816 already so intimate that Herold composed the second part of Boieldieu's opera Charles de France.‎

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