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Libro

Parke, W T

Musical Memoirs Vol. I-II

London, Colburn and Bentley, 1830

450,00 €

Science Books (London, Reino Unido)
Cerrado hasta 22 de abril de 2024.

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Detalles

Año de publicación
1830
Autor
Parke, W T
Editores
London, Colburn and Bentley
Materia
opera, music, London, reminiscences, musica, Londra, XVIII century
Idiomas
Inlgés

Descripción

350pp, 333pp VG/none First (only) edition, complete in two volumes. Full title Musical Memoirs comprising An Account on the General State of Music in England, from the First Commemoration of Handel in 1784, to the Year 1830, Interspersed with Numerous Anecdotes, Musical, Histrionic, &c. Rebound in modern green buckram with gilt lettering on spine and new endpapers, just a faint damp stain on lower corner of the first sheets in vol.I and sporadic foxing, generally light (see photos), overall in VG conditions. Musical recollections (and much more) of William Thomas Parke, forty years principal oboist to the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, brother of the other notable oboist John Parke. A lot of trivia, gossip and jokes included nevertheless interesting in the information presented on music, opera and opera houses in London in that period.