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Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732-1809)
La Creation du Monde. Oratorio in Trois Partie. Traduit de l'Allemand mis en Vers français par Joseph A. Ségur. Arrangé pour être Exécuté au Théatre des Arts par D. Steibelt. [Full score].
Chez Melles. Erard: Paris, [1800, as per Hoboken]. First French edition. Engraved. Quarto. 324 pp. (score) + 3 pp. (trombone part) + 3 pp. (contrabassoon part). Green cloth spine with marbled paper boards. A crisp copy in very good condition with minor foxing typical of age.The first French edition, published the same year as Haydn's authorized first edition in German and just two years after the oratorio's premiere. Full orchestral score. A nice copy.
MUS-15347$1,200