Dussek, Jan Ladislav. (1760–1812) & Pleyel, Ignazio [Ignace]. (1757–1831)
Bound Volume of Eleven 18th-Century Sonata Sets by Dussek and Pleyel
Sammelband, speckled brown paper boards over half brown leather, containing 18 sonatas and 3 preludes by Dussek and three sonatas by Pleyel, as follows:Pleyel, Ignace. Three Sonatas for the Piano-Forte or Harpsichord with
Accompaniments for a Violin and Violoncello....Op. XXI. Paris: Chez Imbault.
(1801).Title; [i,1] (blanks); 2 - 45 pp. (piano score). Engraved folio. [PN] 228. A
few minor tears to edges, title page with an early paper repair, a few minor stains
in margins, else in fine condition throughout.
Dussek, J.L. Trois Sonates Pour Le Forté-Piano Avec Accompagnement de
Flûte ou Violon... Oeuvre 51. Paris: Chez Sieber. (ca. 1809). Title; [i] (blank); 1-
31 pp. (piano score). Engraved folio. [PN] 1813. A few minor stains in margins,
a few light pencil marks above music, else in fine condition throughout.
Dussek, J.L. Trois Sonates et Trois Prelude Pour Clavecin ou Forte Piano...
Oeuvre XXXI. Paris: Chéz Sieber. (1798). Title; [i, 1] (blanks); 2-37 pp.
Engraved folio. [PN] 1438. A few minor stains. Fine condition.
Dussek, J.L. Trois Sonates Pour Clavecin Ou Forté-Piano la première et la
troisième avec accomp[agnemen]t de flûte ou violon. Nora. elles peuvent être
exeéutées sur le Piano-Forté à six octaves... Oeuvre XXV. Paris: Chéz Sieber.
(1798). Title; [i, 1] (blanks); 2-39 pp. (piano score). Engraved folio. [PN] 1406.
A few minor stains, else fine.
Dussek, M. Trois Sonates Pour Clavecin Ou Forté- Piano Avec
accompagnement d’un Violon... Oeuvre XVI. Paris: Chez Sieber. (ca. 1791).
Title; [i, 1] (blanks); 2-25 pp. (piano score). Engraved folio. [PN] 1125. Two
early paper repairs, else in fine condition.
Dussek, M. Trois Sonates Pour Clavecin Ou Forté-PIano Avec Violon
Adlibitum... Op. XIII. Paris: Chéz Sieber. (1798). Title; [i, 1] (blanks); 2-31 pp.
(piano score). Engraved Folio. [PN] 1028. Very few minor stains and pencil
marks. Fine condition throughout.
Dussek, M. Trois Sonates Pur Clavecin Ou Forté-Piano Avec Violon... Oeuvre
XII. Paris: Chéz Sieber. (1798). Title; [i] (blank); 1-37 pp. A few minor stains,
one torn corner (margin), and three early paper repairs. Else, fine condition.
"Dussek is an unjustly neglected composer. Admittedly some of his more insignificant works... are trivial and deservedly forgotten, but there is a body of piano sonatas, piano concertos and chamber works that are of sufficient musical worth to be performed and enjoyed today. His music seems to have been received with enthusiasm in his own time; reviews of the original editions in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung praise Dussek's originality and expressiveness, and the appropriateness to the piano of his melody, harmony and scoring..."."... As has been frequently observed, much of Dussek's music resembles that of other composers. Most often, however, these composers are later than Dussek, and such resemblances show him to have been very much ahead of his time in the development of a Romantic piano style..."."... Dussek's works were remarkably popular in his lifetime; most were reprinted at least once, and some as many as ten times (some important works appeared in as many as three different editions by Breitkopf & Härtel alone, who issued a 12-volume collected edition of his works just after his death). He quickly fell into disregard, however, and his name does not appear at all in the letters of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin or Moscheles. Between 1860 and 1880 a revival of interest in Dussek brought about new editions of the piano sonatas by Breitkopf & Härtel and Litolff, as well as many performances of them, particularly in London." (Howard Allen Craw et al in Grove Online) (8928)
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