La Flûte Enchantée ou les Mysteres d'Isis. Grand Opera ...mis par l'auteur en Quatuors pour Deux Violons, Alto et Basse [KV 620]

Paris: Chez Sieber. [1797]. First edition. Upright folio. Vl I: 1f. (title, v. blank), [2] (blank), 2-15 pp; Vl II: 1f. (title), 2-14 pp; Va: 1f. (title), 2-13 pp; Vc: [1] (title), 2-14 pp. Engraved throughout. [PN] 1466. Housed in a custom clamshell box, crimson cloth. RISM M 5026. Gribenski (D'Un Opéra l'autre) p. 269. OCLC records only 2 copies worldwide.


A rare early edition of 17 selections from the opera as arranged for string quartet, not by the composer as the title suggests. An unadulterated edition of the score did not appear until that of Simrock, more than twenty years later, in 1814. (5551)

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