DONIZETTI, Gaetano.

La Favorite. Opéra en quatre actes. Paroles de M.M. E. Scribe, Alph. Royer & Gust. Vaëz ... partition avec Acct. de Piano arrangée par R. Wagner.

Paris, Maurice Schlesinger, [1840]. Folio, pp. [4], 266; plate numbers M.S.3218 (overture) and M.S.3343; engraved music, without the frontispiece present in some copies; occasional foxing, but a very good copy in contemporary quarter sheep gilt, some skilful restoration. First edition. Wagner’s arrangement of Donizetti’s La Favorite in vocal score with piano accompaniment. This is the most celebrated of several piano reductions made during Wagner’s time in Paris when he was under straitened circumstances and worked for the publisher Schlesinger as an arranger.OCLC lists copies of the 1840 edition at Newberry, Abilene and Oxford, and copies of the 1841 edition at Berkeley, Harvard, Nebraska and Eastman School of Music.

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