C.W. Gluck. Collection of later editions, 1808-1838

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Collection of later editions, including

1) Iphigénie en Aulide, tragédie lyrique en trois actes...Iphigenia in Aulis, Lyrische Tragödie in drei Aufzügen...in einen Auszug zum Singen bei dem Pianoforte gebracht von J. D. Sander. Erster Act [vocal score], Berlin: in Sanders Buchhandlung, [1808], 74 pages, folio, type-set music (2 copies: ownership inscriptions "Lichtenstein" and "Carl Brühl")

2) Ouverture d'Iphigenie en Aulide...Arrangé pour le Pianoforte, Berlin: J. J. Hummel, no date, 5 pages, engraved throughout, plate number 1359, unbound

3) Iphigenia in Tauris...frei übersetzt von J. D. Sander. Vollständiger Klavierauszug [vocal score], Berlin: Schlesinger, [1812], 107 pages, oblong 4to, type-set music, plate number 50, ownership inscription ("B. Rudorff"), contemporary decorative papered boards

4) Armide...vollständiger Klavierauszug...Armide...arrangée pour le Piano...par Jean Philippe Schmidt [vocal score], Berlin: Schlesinger, [1813], 166 pages, large oblong, type-set music, plate number 75, ownership inscription ("Lichtenstein"), contemporary half calf

5) Alceste...Nach der italienischen und französischen Partitur Für's Piano Forte bearbeitet von C. J. Stegmann [vocal score], Bonn: Simrock, [1815], 159 pages, oblong folio, plate number 1125, engraved music, ownership inscription ("Ernst Rudorff"), contemporary half calf

6) Orpheus...Vollständiger Klavierauszug...von Ferd. Brissler [vocal score], Berlin: Challier, [1838], 91 pages, oblong large 8vo, engraved music, plate number 225, some manuscript annotations, contemporary half cloth, some tears; together with a C19th manuscript score of the overture to Iphigénie en Aulide (8 items in all)

One volume formerly owned by Carl von Brühl (1772-1837), friend of Goethe, and an influential superintendent general of the Prussian royal theatres. From the collection of Ernst Rudorff.