Ballet du Temple de la Paix Dansé devant Sa Majesté à Fontainebleau. Mis en Musique par Monsieur de Lully, Conseiller Secretaire du Roy, Maison, Couronne de France, & des ses Finances, & Sur-Intendant de la Musique de Sa Majesté. [LWV 69]

LULLY, Jean Baptiste 1632-1687

Verlag: Christophe Ballard, seul Imprimeur de Roy pour la Musique, ruë Saint Jean de Beauvais, au Mont-Parnasse. Et se vend A la Porte de l'Academie Royalle de Musique ruë Saint Honoré. . Avec Privilege de Sa Majesté, Paris, 1685

Beschreibung

Tall folio. Full contemporary dark brown mottled calf with raised bands on spine in compartments gilt, titling gilt, decorative tooling gilt to edges of boards. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (dedication), 206 pp. With decorative woodcut head- and tailpieces throughout. Music and text typeset, music in diamond head notation. With Lully's control paraph to final page of music and additional manuscript paraph (?Lully's) to first page of music. Elaborate woodcut device to title incorporating horticultural and architectural motifs with central image within oval border depicting allegorical personifications of Fortune and Virtue with "Virtuti Fortuna Cedit" (Fortune Yields to Virtue) at Virtue's head with cherubs playing lute and viol and Orpheus with lyre; a satyr playing a panpipe flanks the central image, with two additional cherubs displaying a short musical phrase above. Provenance Noted musicologist and collector Geneviève Thibault, Comtesse de Chambure (1902-1975), with her small engraved armorial bookplate incorporating a crown, a standing bear a lion, and three crested birds to front pastedown. Binding worn, rubbed, and bumped, with some loss to spine; endpapers worn, browned, foxed, and partially detached at foot. Some browning; several leaves unevenly cut, with excess paper folded into corners; minor loss to blank outer margin of p. 195, not affecting music. First Edition. Schneider p. 453. Sonneck Dramatic Music p. 100. Lesure p. 408. BUC p. 634. Hirsch II, 145. RISM L3049 and LL3049. The ballet Le temple de la paix, in 6 entrées with text by Quinault, was first performed in Paris at Fontainebleau on 20 October 1685 to celebrate the Truce of Regensburg and the conclusion of the War of Reunions, fought by France against the Holy Roman Empire and Spain. "In March 1653 Louis appointed Lully compositeur de la musique instrumentale; Lully thus began a fruitful career as composer of court ballets, in which he also danced alongside the king and courtiers. At first he composed only the instrumental portions, but that arrangement quickly changed. His numerous ballets, most of which were written in collaboration with the poet Isaac de Benserade, date mainly from between 1657 and 1671. (The two ballets from the 1680s Le triomphe de l Amour and Le temple de la Paix are more operatic in structure than the early ones and were performed at the Paris Opéra as well as at court.)" Lois Rosow in Grove Music Online A lifetime first edition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 39593

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Titel: Ballet du Temple de la Paix Dansé devant Sa ...

Verlag: Christophe Ballard, seul Imprimeur de Roy pour la Musique, ruë Saint Jean de Beauvais, au Mont-Parnasse. Et se vend A la Porte de l'Academie Royalle de Musique ruë Saint Honoré. . Avec Privilege de Sa Majesté, Paris

Erscheinungsdatum: 1685

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage