Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896). Autograph manuscript of "Concours de violon 1853"

THOMAS, AMBROISE

Autograph manuscript of "Concours de Violon 1853" (marked "Pour le Jury")

titled above the music "Morceau à 1re vue pour le Concours de 1853", notated for two violins (solo and accompaniment) in black ink on seven and five two-stave systems, some careful erasures and alterations, marked in red crayon

2 pages, folio (c.34 x 26cm), on a bifolium with 2 title pages, 22-stave paper by Lard Esnault of Paris, 1853

Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896) was a leading nineteenth-century French opera composer, best known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868).