"LE HAYDINE OVVERO LETTERE SU LA VITA E LE OPERE DEL CELEBRE MAESTRO GIUSEPPE HAYDN" - Toscanini's Copy

Milan: C. Buccinelli. 1812. First edition. 8, 298, [3] pages, 8vo (c.18.5 x 12cms), engraved frontispiece portrait of Haydn by J. Neidl after Zitterer, ownership inscription to title, nineteenth-century calf-backed marbled boards, stamp to title excised and leaf repaired, slight damp staining to upper margins, light discolouration to title page, small worming to spine, heavy indent to upper board along the foreedge. From the collection of Arturo Toscanini.



The Italian man of letters Giuseppe Carpani is remembered chiefly in relation to Haydn, Salieri, Beethoven, and Rossini, who he knew and served in various ways as poet, translator, and biographer. (8812)

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