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Le Deserteur. Drame en trois actes... Représenté par les comédiens italiens ordinaires du roi le 6 mars 1769. Gravé par Melle Vendôme et le sr. Moria.
16. Paris, chez Claude Hérissant Libraire Imprimeur... (1769), in-folio, 32.5 x 24.5 cm, engraved title page +(1)(dedication) + 267 pp with engraved music . Modern brown half morocco, smooth spine, marbled covers and marbled endpapers. Title page slighty soiled and with some off-setting and some slight browning throughout, but a fine copy. First edition of the main work of this composer. Pierre Monsigny (Fauquemberges 1729 -Paris 1817) was a very successful opera composer who stopped composing altogether after the tremendous success of his opera Félix (1770). His opus 1 - Les aveux indiscrets - was created in 1759. Monsigny is considered as one of the founders of the French comic opera. He lost his patron the Duke of Orléans and his fortune during the French revolution but was nominated in 1813, when he was 84 years old, at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in the seat of Grétry. (Rieman 1961, pp. 242 , Lesure, Catalogue pp.440).
MONSIGNY Pierre Alexandre (1729-1819) - PHILIDOR François-André Danican (1726 - 1795) - DIBDIN Charles ( 1745 - 1814 ) :
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The Song &c in The deserter , a musical drama as perform'd with universal applause at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane / Composed by Messrs. Monsigny , Philiodor , & Dibdin.
" London, Printed for John Johnston, near Exeter Change Strand ; & Longman , Lukey & Co. [...], s.d. ( 1773) , format oblong in-4°, 24 x 32 cm, (2)nn pp (engraved title , blank) + 42 pp of engraved music (as issued).Bound in modern boards covered with tobacco coloured paper, with leather title label on front cover. Nice copy !. An adaptation by Charles Dibdin of Monsigny's '' Le Déserteur'', with new music by Dibdin and two airs by F.A. Philidor ; libretto by Dibdin, after M.J. Sedaine. Afterpiece. Overture arranged for keyboard , vocal numbers mostly for voices and continuo (figured bass). Without the recitatives or spoken dialogue (Commentary from COPAC, Oxford Univ.)."
