Musique pour guitare à l'usage de Mlle Caroline de Giverville - Autograph Manuscript

4to. 80 pp. Half green vellum over blue marbled boards. 19th century autograph manuscript in an unknown hand, containing 28 "airs avec accompagnement de guitare" dedicated to Mademoiselle Caroline de Giverville by the composer. Bound together with a further "Recueil de differents Morceaux pour Guitare" by Carulli "a l'usage de Mademoiselle Caroline de Giverville" being 10 additional short works for guitar alone.

Only the 9 songs of Opus 3a and Opus 4a are listed as voice + guitar in the Carulli catalogue and Giverville is not listed in the index of dedicatees. The present manuscript appears to be an unknown source including numerous original compositions by the father of modern guitar, apparently composed for and dedicated to a student in Paris.

Carulli was author of the first complete classical guitar method, which continues to be used today. He wrote a variety of works for classical guitar, including concertos and chamber works and was extremely prolific, composing over 400 works for the instrument in the space of 12 years. "The leading Italian guitarist of his time, he moved to Paris some time after the birth of his son (1801) with his French-born wife Marie-Joséphine Boyer...From 1809 Carulli made Paris his permanent home, where he was at the centre of the phenomenon known as guitaromanie, establishing himself as a virtuoso, composer and teacher. According to contemporary music critics, Carulli was the first to reveal to Paris audiences what the guitar was capable of in terms of expressivity, timbre, harmony and virtuosity, and he brought about a change in taste and performing practice." (Mario Torta, Grove Online) (5977)

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Manuscript Music

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