"Le Bal de Béatrice d’Este" - WITH AUTOGRAPH NOTE AND CORRECTIONS

Paris: Au Ménestrel, Heugel & Cie. [1905]. Score to the important Venezuelan-French composer's suite for winds, two harps and piano, Le Bal de Béatrice d'Este, corrected in Hahn's own hand in 1927 and with an autograph note from him regarding these corrections. The autograph note, affixed to the cover, reads (translated from the French): "December 5, 1927. Corrected copy (for orchestra and separate parts). See all the dog-eared pages and correct the materials according to this model. Reynaldo Hahn." Hahn has made autograph corrections to pp. 12, 16, 20, 22, 25, 27, 30, 33, 41, and 44, as well as corrections to the flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, cymbal and triangle, and piano parts.

Hahn's Le Bal de Béatrice d'Este, a ballet for wind ensemble, was premiered by Georges Barrère's Société Moderne d'Instruments à Vent in 1905. The piece is composed of a series of Renaissance-inspired dances and other scenes imagined to take place at the court of Beatrice of Este (1475-1497), the wife of Ludovico Sforza and sister of Isabella d'Este. (14622)

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