Oeuvres de M.Vadé ou Recueil des Opéras Comiques, Parodies et Pièces fugitives de cet Auteur Avec les Airs, Rondes & Vaudevilles Noté

La Haye: Chez Pierre Gosse. 1785. 2 volumes in-12° (10 x 17 cm). 323 & 299 pp. Full leather, ornate gilt stamping on spines. Small chip to head of spine of Volume 1, else fine throughout. Each volume containing approx. 50 pp of printed music.


Jean-Joseph Vadé’s popularity as a composer and librettist is evident in the publication of his collected works, which first appeared in 1755, expanded in 1758, a year after his death, and continually reprinted through the 18th century. Vadé’s œuvre consists of mostly opéras comiques, some with original music, some using preexisting tunes. The collected works editions include fictional correspondence and poetry. Vadé’s interest in capturing the bustling atmosphere of fish markets is evident in such works as "Les quatre bouquets poissards" and the poem "La pipe cassée", which is classified as a “poëme epitragipoissardiheroicomique.” Melodies for operatic airs are also printed in these volumes. Although Vadé claimed authorship of the music, some were familiar tunes that had existed before Vadé appropriated them. (7657)

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