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Opera in 2 acts.
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dj534v123
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Il finto cieco
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dj534v123
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title
Il finto cieco
description
Opera in 2 acts.
date
["[1786]"]
year
1786
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
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no restrictions
language
Italian
identifierLocal
25_07-Music-B1
creators
Gazzaniga, Giuseppe, 1743-1818
Sukowaty, Wenzel, 1746-1810
Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838
Legrand, Marc-Antoine, 1673-1728
Martín y Soler, Vicente, 1754-1806
Tritto, Giacomo, 1733-1824
Andreozzi, Gaetano, 1755-1826
Jadin, Louis-Emmanuel, 1768-1853
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Boston Public Library
collections
Allen A. Brown Collection of Music
subjects
Operas--Scores
Music--Manuscripts
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Austria
Europe
Vienna
Vienna state
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Musical notation
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Notated music
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Austria
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Vienna state
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Vienna
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1 manuscript score ([566] unnumbered pages) ; 24 x 33 cm
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notes
Opera in 2 acts.
Full score.
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte after Marc-Antoine Legrand's L'aveugle clairvoyant (information from Grove [Oxford Music Online]).
"In Vienna, presso Sukowatÿ, Copista del Teatro di Corte nella Piazza di St. Pietro Nro. 554, in terzo Piano"--At foot of title page of volume 1.
Date of production not before 1786; the first performance was given on February 20, 1786 at Burgtheater in Vienna (information from Grove [Oxford Music Online]).
Unpaginated.
Copyists' manuscript in a variety of brown or black inks made from various scribes under supervision of Wenzel Sukowaty. Score contains extensive alternations, corrections, emendations, insertions, and pasteovers throughout both volumes in a variety of inks and pencils.
4 arias not composed by Gazzaniga have been interpolated: 1. Act 1, scene 1. Io non sono semflicetta : aria / del Sig: Vincenzo Martini -- 2. Act 2, scene 1. Duetto / del Sig.r Giacomo Tritto -- 3. Act 2, scene 6. Rondo / del Sig.r Andreozzi -- 4. Act 2, scene 7. [Untitled aria] / de Sig.r L[ouis Emmanuel] Jadin.
Volume 1 unnumbered pages 527-528 and volume 2 unnumbered pages 277-278 are sewn together.
Each act bound separately.
Binder's spine title, v. 1: Il finto cieco. Atto I; v.2: Il finto cieco. Atto II.
Volume 2 lacks title page.
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In Vienna
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