Fragments
Subtitle: composés du prologue des Amours des dieux, de l'acte de L'amour enjoué et de celui de La danse : représentés devant Leurs Majestés à Versailles le mercredi 6 mars 1765
Contributors: Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764; Dauvergne, Antoine, 1713-1797; Mouret, Jean-Joseph, 1682-1738; Fuzelier, M. (Louis), 1672-1752, librettist; Gautier de Montdorge, Antoine, 1701-1768, librettist; Laval, Antoine Bandiéri de, 1688-1767, choreographer; Laval, Michel Jean Bandiéri de, 1725-1777?, choreographer; Cotte, engraver; Château de Versailles (Versailles, France); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: De l'imprimerie, de Christophe Ballard, seul imprimeur du roi pour la musique, & noteur de la Chapelle de Sa Majesté
Published: 1765
Place of publication: Paris]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; Ballets
Notes: Three excerpts from operas and ballets with choreography by Antoine Bandiéri de Laval and Michel Jean Bandiéri de Laval: Les amours des dieux, with music by Jean-Joseph Mouret and libretto by M. Fuzelier, first performed in Paris at the Opéra, 16 September 1727; L'amour enjoué, with music by Antoine Dauvergne; and La danse, the third entrée of Les fêtes d'Hébé, ou, Les talents lyriques, with music by Jean-Philippe Rameau and libretto by Antoine Gautier de Montdorge, first performed in Paris at the Opéra, 21 May 1739. Cf. Grove music online.

Individual works paginated individually but signed consecutively.

Each excerpt has its own title page, statements of responsibility and lists of singers and dancers.

Includes title vignette, head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials; some head-pieces signed Cotte.

Sonneck, O.G.T.  Librettos, p. 529