Pleyel, Ignace. (1757–1831)

Deux Sonates Pour Le Clavecin ou le Piano Forte avec Accompagnement d'un Violin ad Libitum

London: J. Dale. [ca. 1791]. Piano score. Upright folio.  Title; vb; 1-17 pp; [publisher's catalogue]. Engraved throughout, no PN.  Subsequent music seller's label for HIME's Musical Instrumental Warehouse No. 34 in College Green, Dublin affixed to cover, beneath original imprint.  Remnants of leather and notches along spine where removed from a larger volume, fingerings in pencil 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."  (18946)


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