Sai che il tuo amore from the opera La Nitteti . Copyist musical manuscript score

by Tomaso Traetta

$1,250 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

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Oblong quarto 229 x 297 mm . Notated in black ink on 9-stave rastrum-ruled paper. 22 pp. Scored for alto voice, strings, flutes, and unfigured basso continuo. Inscribed at head of first page to celebrated castrato Gaetano Guadagni 1728-1792 , who sang the role of Sammeto in the 1759 Lucca producion of Nitteti In Lucca Nello Nitteti 1759 = Dal Sigr. Guadagni. Moderate foxing and soiling to outer margins of first page; small circular manuscript

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