Il maestro di musica
Subtitle: intermezzo per musica, in due atti : da representarsi in Parigi, nell Theatre dell' Opera, il 1752 = Le maître de musique : intermède en musique en deux actes : représenté à Paris, sur le Théâtre de l'Opéra en 1752
Publisher: Chez la veuve Delormel, & fils, imprimeur de l'Académie royale de musique, rue du Foin, à l'image Sainte Geneviève
Published: 1752
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: ita; fre
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; French Parodies; Specimens
Other titles: Maître de musique : intermède en musique en deux actes : représenté à Paris, sur le Théâtre de l'Opéra en 1752.; Maestro di musica. Libretto; Maestro di musica. French Libretto
Notes: Opera in 2 acts; either a parody or a translation of the intermède Il maestro di musica.

First performed in Paris at the Opéra, 19 September 1752, this pasticcio is based largely on P. Auletta's Orazio, but includes 2 arias and a duet by G.B. Pergolesi; original Italian text by A. Palombo; French text attributed to P. Baurans. See Oxford music online/Grove music online (WWW site, 8 June 2009) and A. de Léris, Dictionnaire portatif historique et littéraire des théatres.

Signatures: A-C⁶.

"Le prix est de 12 sols."

Head- and tail-pieces, and illustrated initials.

"Acteurs = Personaggi": p. [2]-[3] with named cast.

"Approbation": p. [1] (2nd group).

Deposit; John Milton Ward; 2007 November 14; 2007TW-2099.

Italian and French words on facing pages.

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

No. 3 in a volume containing three 18th-century opera librettos (2 Italian, one French), and a published "Lettre a Monsieur Riccoboni."

Volume has a ms. shelf mark (?) on the front flyleaf: "No. 309. E.Tab.7".

Sewn into modern beige stiffened paper wrapper; in case, 19 cm.

Bound in contemporary mottled brown calf; spine gilt with morocco label and spine title, Recueil de piec[es]; edges stained red; green silk marker.