C. W. Gluck. First complete edition of the vocal score of "Don Juan", before 1825

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Don Juan Ballet...Vollständiger Klavierauszug von Friedrich Wollank, Berlin: Trautwein, [before 1825]

FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF THE VOCAL SCORE, 34 pages (25.5 x 33cm), oblong folio, engraved music, contemporary brown wrappers, some worming, light central crease

A complete edition of the score of Gluck's 1761 ballet, which influenced Mozart in such diverse works as the D minor string quartet K. 421 and Le nozze di Figaro, was not published until the twentieth century, only portions of the work in vocal score appearing in the eighteenth century.

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