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Célèbre masque mortuaire, réplique du moulage réalisé par le sculpteur Jean-Baptiste Clésinger
sur le lit de mort de Chopin quelques heures après la mort du compositeur, et légèrement retravaillé
pour en atténuer l’aspect dramatique.
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CORELLI, Arcangelo
- Concerti grossi con duoi violini e violoncello di concertino obligati (…)
Opera sesta. Parte prima [- Preludii (…) e minuetti. Parte seconda per camera]. Amsterdam, E.
Roger & M.C. Le Cone, [c. 1719], 7 parts in 7 vols, sm. folio, cont. quarter sheep (worn, some
covers loose), marbl. paper on covers with paper title label (ms.), entirely engraved. Good set.
Cfr. ill.
€ 1200/2000
Rare 3rd ed. (1st Amsterdam 1714, 2nd London 1715) with on titles Roger’s “N° 197”.
Engr. front.
portrait
by G. vander Gouwen. “Despite the modest size of his output, comprising six collections of
instrumental music and a handful of other authentic works, and its virtual restriction to three genres
– solo sonata, trio sonata and concerto – Corelli exercised an unparalleled influence during his
lifetime and for a long time afterwards. This influence, which affected form, style and instrumental
technique in equal measure, was most closely felt in Italy, and in particular in Rome, where he
settled in early manhood, but soon spread beyond local and national confines to become a European
phenomenon. As a violinist, teacher of the violin and director of instrumental ensembles Corelli
imposed standards of discipline that were unusually strict for their period and helped to lay the
groundwork for further progress along the same lines during the 18th century. To Corelli belong
equally the distinctions of being the first composer to derive his fame exclusively from instrumental
composition, the first to owe his reputation in large part to the activity of music publishers, and the
first to produce ‘classic’ instrumental works which were admired and studied long after their idiom
became outmoded” (M. Talbot in Grove online). Armorial bookpl. Edward Goddard.
Ref.
RISM
C-3846. STCN-Den Haag (1 compl. copy)
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