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Dardanus : Opera en Cinq Actes ... en 1739 paroles de La Bruere ; Musiqe de Rameau.: MU.MS.63

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Dardanus : Opera en Cinq Actes ... en 1739 paroles de La Bruere ; Musiqe de Rameau.
Dardanus

Maker(s)

Composer: Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Librettist: La Bruère, Le Clerc de
Composer: Berton, Pierre Montan

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Description

1 ms. score (358 p., bound) ; 34cm

Language: French
This version accords with the libretto of 1768. The musical variants include additions by Pierre Montan Berton (see Charles Malherbe's Commentaire bibliographique in the Oeuvres completes, t. 10 (Paris, 1905), pp. cxix-cxx.)
Libretto by Le Clerc de La Bruère.
Characters: Dardanus (A), Teucer (B), Iphise (S), Choeur (SATB and ATB), Ismenor (B), Antenor (B), Une Phrigienne (S), Arcas (A), L'Amour (S), Venus (S), Choeur de Plaisirs (SATB).
Copyist manuscript in ink.
Watermark: "Auvergne / 1785" (and other letters).
Former classmark: 22.G.5.
Quarter green leather, marbled paper sides, green leather tips. Rebound, using original sides and spine, by Nicholas Pickwoad, 10 October 1989.

Notes

History note: Founder's bequest, 1816. Inscribed on title page: "Fitzwilliam 1791".

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount

Dating

Production date: circa AD 1786 : [France], [approximately 1786]

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.63
Primary reference Number: 307004
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Audit data

Created: Monday 11 October 2021 Updated: Monday 11 October 2021 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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