33
Operas.
8
vo.
viz.
1815 Catalogue, page 149, no. 28, as above, [omitting viz].
1831 Catalogue, page 238, no. J. 28. Operas 8vo.
1839 Catalogue, page 617, no. J. 28. Operas, 8vo, viz: Lettre de M. Bassi sur l’Opera Bouffon Italien, 1787.--Mercure et les
Ombres; Paris, 1784.--La Fausse Magie, par Marmontel; Paris, 1775.--La Caravane du Caire; Paris, 1783.--La Belle Arsene; Paris,
1780.--Zémire et Azor, par Marmontel; Paris, 1783.--Alexis et Justine, par Monvel; Paris, 1785.
In all the Library of Congress catalogues down to that of 1839 inclusive, Jefferson’s manuscript has been followed and this set of operas, bound in one volume, placed in the chapter headed Tragedy. In the catalogue printed
in 1849, this arrangement was discarded, the operas given a different number and placed in the next chapter Comedy. In that
chapter, although each of the operas concerned has the same number, each is placed in its correct alphabetical place.
BASSI,
Anton Benedetto.
Lettre adressée a la Société Olympique de Paris, a l’occasion de l’Opéra Bouffon Italien de Versailles. Par M. Bassi . . . Without name of place or printer [?
Paris:]
Novembre. 1787.
ML1727.3 .A2 B18
First Edition. 8vo. 14 leaves including the half-title.
This work deals with the controversy caused by the rivalry between Gluck and Piccini.
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[PARISAU,
Pierre Germain.]
Mercure et les Ombres, Pièce-Episodique, en Vers.
Paris,
1784.
8vo. A copy of this work was not located.
Barbier III, 270.
Quérard VI, 600.
Pierre Germain Parisau, 1753-1794, was for a time the director of the Elèves pour la danse à l’Opera, and later wrote for the Comédie Française.
He established, with Ségur, Dillon, Chas and others, a newspaper,
La Feuille du Jour
, which resulted in his imprisonment and execution.
Mercure et les Ombres was originally printed in 1783[.]
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MARMONTEL,
Jean François.
La Fausse Magie, Comédie en vers, et en un Acte, mêlée de Chant, Represéntée pour la premiere fois sur le Théâtre de la Comédie
Italienne, le Mercredi premier Février 1775. Par M. Marmontel, Historiographe de France, l’un des Quarante de l’Académie Française. Nouvelle Édition. Le prix est de
24 sols.
A
Paris, chez la Veuve
Duchesne, [de l’Imprimerie de
C. Simon, Imprimeur de LL. AA. SS. Messeigneurs le Prince de Condé, le Duc de Bourbon, rue des Mathurins,
1775.]
m. dcc. lxxv
. Avec Approbation & Privilége du Roi. [1775.]
PQ1213 .P55, [punct.
sic.--
Ed.] v. 89
8vo. 32 leaves, printer’s imprint at the end; on the last page 6 lines of musical notation headed: Couplet, Madame Saint-Clair.
This edition not in Quérard.
The first edition, printed earlier in the same year for the Veuve Duchesne, was in two acts, and the price 36 sols.
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