Le maître de musique
Subtitle: comédie mêlée d'ariettes, parodies de l'italien
Publisher: Chez la veuve Delormel, & fils ... , rue du Foin, et Prault, fils, Quai de Conti
Published: 1755
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; French Parodies
Other titles: Maestro di musica.
Work titles: Maître de musique
Notes: Parody of Il maestro di musica, a pasticcio based largely on P. Auletta's Orazio with two arias and a duet by Pergolesi, which was first performed at the Paris Opéra on 19 September 1752. Cf. New Grove opera.

"Representée pour la premiere fois par les Comediens Italiens Ordinaires du Roi, le 28 Mai 1755."

Pages [1] (2nd group) and [1]-[2] (last group) are blank.

Signatures: A-B⁸ C⁴.

Music (melodies): p. 1-44 (3rd group) and p. 1-16 (4th group).

Includes cast list.

French words, attributed to P. Baurans. Cf. Stieger, F. Opernlexikon, T. 1, 2 Bd. and Parfaict, C. Dictionnaire des théâtres de Paris, v. 7, p. 569.

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward

Unbound, sewn, with brown paper strip pasted on spine; in case, 22 cm.