G. Rossini. Autograph manuscript of "Un Rien" (Ave Maria), 1864

Gioachino Rossini

Autograph manuscript of "Un Rien", signed at the end ("G. Rossini")

an album-leaf setting of the words "Ave Maria gratia plena", complete in itself, scored for soprano and piano, notated in dark brown ink on three three-stave systems, comprising 21 bars, a few autograph corrections over erasures

1 page, plus nine blank leaves, 4to (25.8 x 34.3cm), edges gilt, modern green half morocco, 1864, browning to edges, a few tiny tears to lower margin, one tear partially repaired

A little compositional gem shaken from the sleeves of the master composer-magician in his late Paris period.

LITERATURE

Quaderni rossiniani, xi, p.60