M. Clementi. Collection of early editions of his keyboard music, C19th

Muzio Clementi

Collection of early editions of his keyboard music

1) Oeuvres Complettes de Muzio Clementi Cahier I ...[Cahier IV] [Op.7 nos.1 and 3, Op.8, Op.12 nos.1-4, and Op.23; Op.1, duet, Op.3 nos.1-3, and Op.14], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1803-1804],2 volumes, 120 and 112, 6 pages, oblong 4to, publisher's printed yellow wrappers, bindings defective;

2) Gradus ad Parnassum ou L'art de jouer le Pianoforte...Vol. 1...[Vol. 2] [Op.44 nos.1-50], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1817-1819], 2 volumes in one, 81 and 89 pages, title-pages inscribed by Marie Lichtenstein, nineteenth-century half calf;

3) Gradus ad Parnassum ou L'art de toucher le Piano-Forté...Liv. 1. 2 [Op.44, exercises 1-30], Offenbach: Jean André, no date, 93 pages, ownership inscription to front free endpaper ("Ernst Rudorff"), nineteenth-century green half cloth;

4) Trois Sonates pour le Piano-Forte...Oeuv. 50, Leipzig C.F. Peters, no date, 61 pages, nineteenth-century quarter cloth

together with three other nineteenth-century editions (of Op.25 no.5, Op.33 no.3, and Op.44), and two scribal manuscripts of Clementi's Op.21 trios and Op.6 no.2 and Op.13 no.6 sonatas

LITERATURE

Alan Tyson, Thematic catalogue of the works of Muzio Clementi (Tutzing, 1967)