Pleyel, Ignace. (1757–1831)

Sinfonie...arrangée Pour le Clavecin ou le piano-forte avec accompagnement de Deux Violons Alto et Basse

Paris: Imbault. [ca. 1790]. Piano score. Upright folio, disbound. Engraved throughout. [PN] 331.  Title; vb; [i] 2–18 pp.  Loose threads along spine from removal from larger volume, surface creasing to cover and first page, ownership signature "Laure Borat" and notations to upper and lower edges of tp, light foxing throughout, else fine.  9.75 x 12.5 (24.8 x 31.8 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."  (18945)


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