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| Id |
8614 |
| Category |
manuscript |
| Author / Composer |
VACCAI, Nicola (1790-1848) |
| Title |
Autograph letter signed, to a contralto singer. |
| Place |
Pesaro |
| Publisher |
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| Publication Date |
30 Aprile [?], 1828 |
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| Series |
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| Size |
Single sheet 8vo. 223 x 191mm. |
| Description |
Single sheet (traces of previous mounting on verso). Watermark of 'C.o.m.p.'. Autograph letter, in ink, signed: ‘The management of this theatre wants to put on some opere serie during the carnival season for which they need a musician. I thought that you should be put forward and I have been commissioned to write asking you to accept the invitation to take the parts of first contralto … The fee that they can pay is small but certain. 150 silver Napoleons are therefore offered to you, and a benefit night free of all expenses of the evening. I wish to point out that half of your fee will be enough to live on here …’. She should write at once, ‘and accept – making any minor observations that you think necessary; but let them be of no great significance’. Vaccai composed seventeen operas between 1815 and 1846; notably, Malibran, at Rossini’s suggestion, interpolated the penultimate scene of his Romeo opera into Bellini’s where it became a regular alternative. He was also a well-known singing-teacher and worked for a time in England. His letters are very rare. |
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| Price |
£175.00 |
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