Herold, Ferdinand

including Fantasias for piano (on themes by Rossini and Weber), and other piano pieces, some marked by and for the engraver, together with full scores and drafts of “airs de ballet”, instrumental pieces and other drafts;  the working manuscripts, notated in brown ink on up to twenty-four staves per page, with revisions, annotations to the engravers, deletions, and additions, some written on slips of paper laid down in the score, some with sealing wax, including

1)       “Seconde fantaisie brillante, pour le Piano-forte composée sur themes de Rossini”, op.23, the Stichvorlage, 14 pages, folio, 18-stave paper, stitched, [published by Lemoine in 1830]



2)      “Fantaisie pour le piano”, [on themes by Rossini],  in D major,  the Stichvorlage, with many revisions on slips of paper and autograph notes to the engraver, 16 pages, folio, 16-stave  paper, stitched, 1822 [probably that published by Boieldieu in 1822]



3)      “Choeur des chasseurs du Freyschutz, varié pour le piano”,  the Stichvorlage, 12 pages, folio, 18-stave paper, stitched



4)      Introduction and Moderato assai, in E flat,  9 pages, folio,  18-stave paper, somewhat affected by damp, January 1817



5)      Andante & moderato in D, for piano, 8 pages, folio, 18-stave paper



6)      “Bacchanale pour le piano-forte”, in D major, (title deleted), 5 pages, folio, 18-stave paper



7)       “Air de Ballet”, Entré in D major, for orchestra, the full score notated on 17 staves per page, signed with a paraph, 35 pages, folio, 18-stave paper, the bifolia stitched



8)      “Air de Ballet”, in D major, the short score for piano, 5 pages, folio, 18-stave paper, revised & corrected in orange crayon, slightly affected by damp



9)       “Air pour M^o Paul”, for 2 violins, 'Lent’ and ‘Allegro moderato’,  4 pages, possibly unfinished at end



10)   “Favorite Irisch Air”, 2 pages, oblong 4to, 12-stave paper



11)    “Marcia” in g minor, “Allegro feroce”, signed Herold, 5 pages, oblong 4to, 10-stave paper, Naples: January 1815



12)   “Marche pour orchestra”, 1 page, oblong 4to, 12-stave paper, Vienna, July 1815



13)   “Canon: O giocondo lieto giorno”,  1 page, oblong 4to, 12-stave paper, Vienna, July 1815



Together with about 30 unfinished working drafts and sketch-leaves, some manuscripts with original stitching, two manuscripts rather affected by damp, some dust-marking and foxing, mainly on the unfinished drafts

This lot and the two that follow all derive from the composer's family, acquired at the sale of "Lettres autographes et documents: archives de la famille Hérold”, Paris: Drouot-Richelieu, 12 June 1991).

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These are important sources for the early works by Ferdinand Herold (1791-1833), the famous composer of La fille mal gardée (1828) and Zampa (1831).