Hirsch II.212.

GAETANO DONIZETTI (b.1797, d.1848): ‘Linda di Chamouny’, opera in 3 acts to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi, after Adolphe Philippe Dennery and G. Lemoine, in a German translation by Heinrich Proch; circa 1850. Full score, in ink. Copy on pages ruled with 20 staves. Scored for solo voices, choir and orchestra with ophicleide. Performance directions in pencil and red and blue crayon. Some cuts have been marked in crayon and with folds to the paper. A list of the orchestral and vocal parts copied for use in performance is found on the inside of the front cover of vol.1 (f. iii). With the ownership stamp of ‘Die K. K. Theater’s in Krakau’, and stamps of ‘C. G.’ and ‘GWM’ (apparently the impresarios Karl Gaudelius and Georg Wilhelm Megerle, who staged the work in Krakow in 1855 and 1854 respectively) and of ‘Emil Vaupel, Theater Direction’. Linda di Chamounix was first performed at Vienna, Kärntnertor, 19 May 1842, and in Krakow on 19 Apr. 1854. See J. Got, Das österreichische Theater in Krakau im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert (Vienna, 1984). Purchased as part of the Paul Hirsch Music Library, 1946.

Three volumes. 235 x 300mm. Half cloth, with paper labels on front boards and remains of paper labels on spines.

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, composer: Gustave Lemoine, dramatist: Adolphe Philippe, alias Eugène; called 'Adolphe d'Ennery', dramatist: Heinrich Proch, composer: Gaetano Rossi, librettist: 'Linda di Chamounix', opera by G. Donizetti, to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi, after Eugène Philippe and Gustave Lemoine, translated by Heinrich Proch: circa 1850: Germ: Copy.