Three Sonatas, for the Piano-Forte or Harpsichord, composed and humbly dedicated to the King of Naples, by Ignace Pleyel.

London: Preston & Son. [ca. 1790s]. Upright folio. Title; vb; [1] 2-33 pp.  Engraved throughout, no PN.  Three sonatas, the second of which beginning on page 11 with the printed note at the head "This is the favorite Piece performed with so much applause at the Nobility's Concert."  Leather remnants along spine where disbound from a larger volume, crease to upper right corner, period ownership signature "Janet Miller" on tp, else fine. 9.25 x 12.75 (23.5 x 32.4 cm.).

A prolific and popular composer in his day, Pleyel also cofounded the important French piano firm Pleyel et Cie.. The influential music critic François-Joseph Fétis (1784–1871) wrote of him: "What composer ever created more of a craze than Pleyel? Who enjoyed a more universal reputation or a more absolute domination of the field of instrumental music? Over more than twenty years, there was no amateur or professional musician who did not delight in his genius." In the early 1780s, Pleyel visited Italy, where he composed an opera (Ifigenia in Aulide) and works commissioned by the king of Naples, Ferdinand I, to whom the present set of Sonatas is likewise dedicated.  (18944)

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