{"product_id":"20379-lully-jean-baptiste-dolmetsch-arnold-atys-tragedie-seconde-edition-oeuvre-vi-from-the-collection-of-arnold-dolmetsch","title":"Lully, Jean Baptiste. (1632–1687) [Dolmetsch, Arnold. (1858–1940)] \"Atys, Tragédie...Seconde édition. Oeuvre VI\" - - FROM THE COLLECTION OF ARNOLD DOLMETSCH","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eUpright folio.  Approx. 10 x 15 inches (38.3 x 24.8 cm). Printed title; table and advertisement [iv]; 225 pp engraved music, woodcut initials, six illustrative head-pieces. Mottled calf binding.  Dolmetsch Library stamp and pencil shelfmark (\"II D 41\") to verso of title.  Ownership inscription (\"Monsieur Legras de baulieu\").  Splitting at joints, scuffing to covers, some damp-staining.  Overall in fine condition.  RISM \u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eL 2965. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eArnold Dolmetsch was an important force in the 20th-century revival of interest in early music.  His scholarship and performances with his family helped to resurrect forgotten instruments such as the viola da gamba, and as an expert instrument maker he crafted a psaltery for Yeats and a lute for Joyce.  Dolmetsch is even mentioned briefly in a passage from the \"Eumaeus\" episode of \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, and the George Moore novel \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eEvelyn Innes\u003c\/i\u003e was based on his life.  He accumulated an impressive circle of important and influential friends as well as a legendary library of manuscript and print scores.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eKing Louis XIV’s favorite of Lully’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003etragédies en musique, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eAtys \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003ewas known as “l’opéra du Roy”, the King’s opera. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eIn a prologue and five acts \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eto a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\" style=\"\"\u003elibretto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\" style=\"\"\u003ePhilippe Quinault\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e after \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\" style=\"\"\u003eOvid\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\" style=\"\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eFasti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, it was first performed \u003cspan class=\"s1\" style=\"\"\u003efor the royal court on 10 January, 1876 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" style=\"\"\u003eby Lully's \u003ci\u003eAcadémie Royale de Musique\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003cspan class=\"s3\" style=\"\"\u003eParis Opera\u003c\/span\u003e) at the \u003cspan class=\"s3\" style=\"\"\u003eChâteau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye\u003c\/span\u003e, the first public performance taking place in April 1676 at the \u003cspan class=\"s3\" style=\"\"\u003eThéâtre du Palais-Royal\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e The King had it performed for him again in 1678, and 1682 and 1708.  Piotr Kaminski (\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eMille et un opéras\u003c\/em\u003e, Fayard, 2003) writes: “Not counting the ‘magical’ nature of the dénouement, \u003cem style=\"\"\u003eAtys\u003c\/em\u003e is a human tragedy, its characters fragile, subject to complex drives, without issue, inconsolable.  That the king adopted \u003cem style=\"\"\u003eAtys \u003c\/em\u003eeven before the public recognised the merits of the work is all to his honour.”\u003cem style=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093747191967,"sku":"20379","price":2600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Lully_Jean_Baptiste_Atys_Tragedie_Dolmetsch_Collection_20379b.jpg?v=1722190088","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/20379-lully-jean-baptiste-dolmetsch-arnold-atys-tragedie-seconde-edition-oeuvre-vi-from-the-collection-of-arnold-dolmetsch","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}