$1,900
Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500
Wolman Collection of Classical Scores
Auction: October 19, 2008 1:00:00 PM EDT
1 vol.
Gluck, (Christoph W.). Armide, Drame Heroique. Paris: Bureau du Journal de Musique, no date, [1777]. First edition, full score. Folio, mid 19th-Century cloth, edges stained yellow; rather scuffed. Some toning to title page, scattered light foxing. Slightly trimmed. In custom pig skin & cloth solander case, morocco spine labels; occasionally rubbed.
Armide, the fifth of the seven operas that Gluck wrote for the Academie Royale de Musicque in Paris, was first performed on Semptember 23, 1777.
Provenance: purchased by Wurlitzer-Bruck from the soprano Rose Bampton. Bampton informed Wurlitzer-Bruck that this volume was given to her by Toscanini. This background, on Wurlitzer-Bruck letter-head, included.
Hopkinson 45A.