Boieldieu, Adrien.

the "Romance et Choeur" in Act Two for the Princesse, Olivier and Jean, with a later section from the same opera, notated in full score for voices and orchestra, on up to twenty staves per page, with many revisions, deletions and alterations, with additional passages written on slips of paper pasted into the score, including two complete pages, one stuck down and one affixed with red wax but the original still readable, with repeated sections indicated and notes by the composer to the engraver, and to the copyist, marked up for the engraver, including editorial notes added in pencil, the second section possibly incomplete



25 pages, folio  (c.35 X 26.5cms), on 20- and 18-stave papers, [c.1812]

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Autograph music manuscripts by Boieldieu are of the greatest rarity at auction: we have no record of any appearing in recent decades.  Jean de Paris, produced to great acclaim in 1812, is one of Boieldieu's most significant works.  It was much admired by Carl Maria von Weber, who conducted the opera in Prague in 1814.