Portrait etching and stipple engraving

by Luigi Rados 1773-1840 after Giovanni Battista Bosio 1764-1827 by Antonio Sacchini

$375 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

220 x 155 mm. Sacchini is depicted full-length, seated at a keyboard instrument with pedals, a book of music in his left hand, his right on the keyboard. Arrigoni & Bertarelli 3950. Sacchini was a leading figure in late 18th century opera. In 1770 Burney considered him one of the four greatest composers of Italy, along with Jommelli, Galuppi and Piccinni... A critic of the next generation, Giuseppe Carpani, hailed Sacchini as the world's

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