{"product_id":"22200-martin-y-soler-vincente-l-arbore-di-diana-dramma-giocoso-in-due-atti","title":"Martin y Soler, Vincente.  (1754–1806) L'arbore di Diana. [Dramma giocoso in due atti.] (Excerpts in piano-vocal score)","description":"Seventeen excerpts from the opera, written to a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. Oblong folio. Engraved. \"Racolta\" number of each item (see contents, below) doubles as PN. 122 p.; each number with separate title page and pagination. Text and titles in Italian. Circular handstamp of \"Alessandro Kraus [illegible], Firenze\" to title of overture, first page of music and last page of music. Twentieth-century boards, quarter cloth, with brown morocco label and gilt lettering to upper board; red edges. 8.75 x 13 inches (22.5 x 33 cm). Closely trimmed to foot, with slight loss to pp. 5\/6 in the fourth item (listed as \"No. 4\" below). Otherwise in fine condition. \u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eRISM M 788; not in BUC or Hirsch. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eThe rare first separately issued publications of this music from \u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eDa Ponte's third collaboration with Martin, commissioned for the marriage of Joseph II's niece, Maria Theresa, and first performed at the Burgtheater, Vienna, Oct. 1, 1787. Da Ponte claimed '\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"match\" style=\"\"\u003eL'Arbore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e di Diana was the best of all the operas I have ever composed...' (See Grove Opera, 1: 162.) \u003c\/span\u003eThe numbers in the following table of contents refer to the somewhat later complete first edition of the complete vocal score (Bonn: Simrock, 1793, PN 27):\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eOvertura (PN 156)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e[No. 2] Cavatina \/ Se il voi saper, io Sono Amor \/ Con Recitativo... Racolta d'Arie No. 43\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e[No. 3] Cavatina \/ Tranquilli Soggiorni... Racolta d. Arie No. 34\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e[No. 4] Aria \/ Da parte, le scherzi... Racolta d'Arie No. 48\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e[No. 6] Terzetto \/ Dove vado, dove fuggo... Racolta d'Arie No. 42\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e[No. 8] Aria \/ Lieti e amorosi i guardi... Racolta d'Arie No. 46\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e[No. 9] Quartetto \/ Qualche diavolo qui s'asconde... Racolta d'Arie No. 41\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e[No. 11] Aria \/ Si dice qua e là... Racolta d'Arie No. 35\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e[No. 14] Aria \/ Qual piacer prova il Cor... Racolta d'Arie No. 36\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e[No. 15] Duetto Occietto furbetto... Racolta d'Arie No. 37\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e[No. 16, excerpt] Canone \/ Oh Dio, mancar mi sento... ricavato dal primo Finale... Racolta d'Arie No. 45\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e[No. 19] Quartetto \/ Pietà pietà de noi... Racolta d'Arie No. 44\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e[No. 21.] Aria \/ Ah quante volte mai... Racolta d'Arie No. 40\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e[No. 24] Aria \/ Ah presto fuggiamo... Racolta d'Arie No. 38\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e[No. 25] Aria \/ Sereno raggio... Racolta d'Arie No. 39\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e[No. 26] Aria \/ Se un occhiata tenera... Racolta d'Arie No. 47\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e[No. 28] Duetto \/ Pianin pianino lo chiamerò... Racolta d'Arie No. 40\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eThe opera was the greatest success among the five collaborations of Martin and Da Ponte; the latter worked on Mozart's \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eDon Giovanni\u003c\/i\u003e libretto and a third libretto for Salieri at the same time. After its first performance at the Vienna Burgtheater, on October 1, 1787, the opera was soon produced all over Europe, from Madrid to St. Petersburg. There have been a few revivals in the twenty-first century, most recently at the Minnesota Opera in St. Paul (2017). The hand stamp suggests that the score, already bound in the present scope but certainly not in the present boards, was owned by either the ethnomusicologist Alessandro Kraus (1853–1931) or his German-born father of the same name (1820–1904), who both lived in Florence (Firenze) as citizens of San Marino.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093805650079,"sku":"22200","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Martin_y_Soler_2C_Vincente_L_27arbore_di_Diana._28Excerpts_in_piano-vocal_score_29_22200c.jpg?v=1722190487","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/22200-martin-y-soler-vincente-l-arbore-di-diana-dramma-giocoso-in-due-atti","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}