Le Haydine ovvero lettere su la vita e le opere del celebre maestro Giuseppe Haydn di Giuseppe Carpani dedicate al R. Conservatore di Musica di Milano

by Joseph Haydn, Giuseppe Carpani

$650 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

First edition

Octavo. Dark blue calf-backed marbled boards, spine in decorative compartments gilt, titling gilt, marbled endpapers. 1f. recto title, verso publisher's note , v -viii, 298, i , errata , ii Contorni delle Medaglie i blank pp. First Edition of one of the first biographical accounts of Haydn, preceded only by the far less important biographical pieces by Framery and Le Breton. Wolffheim II, 523. The present work was translated into English in 1839 as The Life of

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