Fine bust-length portrait engraving

by Niccolò Jommelli

$600 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

226 x 196 mm. Very slightly soiled and foxed. In very good condition overall. The New Grove, Vol. 9, p. 690 another version dated 1803, attributed to Giuseppe Fusinati . Jommelli was important among those who initiated the mid-18th-century modifications to singer-dominated Italian opera. His greatest achievements represent a combination of German complexity, French decorative elements and Italian brio, welded together by an

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