Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643).

Deuxième édition, [2], 169 et [1] pages, in-folio (31.8 x 20.8 cm), page de titre et épître imprimés, musique imprimée, table à la fin de l'ouvrage,demi-maroquin rouge moderne, quelques très légères taches.

RISM F 1864, non enregistré au BUC.

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Les éditions des oeuvres de Frescobaldi, l'un des plus grands compositeurs pour clavier de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle, sont très rares dans les ventes publiques: nous n'en avons que quelques exemples au cours des soixantes dernières années (d'éditions différentes de celle-ci).

Le RISM ne recense que sept exemplaires de cette oeuvre.

En 1626, Frescobaldi publie en un seul volume Recercari et canzoni franzese fatte sopra diverse oblighi in partitura...libro primo et Il primo libro di capricci, oeuvres datant respectivement de 1615 et 1624. Un regroupement tout à fait justifié par le fait que les oeuvres ont en commun non seulement une notation libre d'une voix par portée, mais aussi une écriture contrapuntique à quatre voix.

Ce volume est la seconde édition de cet opus combiné (TNG A.5b). Alexander Silbiger écrivit à propos de ces oeuvres : "Les capriccios ne sont pas les oeuvres les plus fréquemment exécutées de Frescobaldi, mais elles procurent au connoisseur surprises et plaisirs continuels, dévoilant l'ingéniosité et l'imagination fertiles du compositeur à leur plus haut niveau" (TNG, ix, p.246). 

Editions of works by Frescobaldi, one of the greatest keyboard composers of the first half of the 17th century, are extremely rare at auction: we have traced only a few such over the last sixty years (and not this edition). RISM lists only seven copies of this work.

In 1626 Frescobaldi published the contents of his 1615 publication Recercari et canzoni franzese fatte sopra diverse oblighi in partitura...libro primo together with Il primo libro di capricci of 1624 in a single volume, a not inappropriate combination, given that they share not only open-score notation but also a four-part contrapuntal texture; the present volume is the second edition of this combined opus (TNG A.5b). Alexander Silbiger writes of these works: "The capriccios are not among the most performed of Frescobaldi's works, but they provide the connoisseur with continual surprises and pleasures and demonstrate Frescobaldi's compositional ingenuity and imagination functioning at their highest levels" (TNG, ix, p.246).