Didon; tragédie lyrique en trois actes Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Didon; tragédie lyrique en trois actes
  • Uniform Title Didon
  • Added Title Aeneid

Creator

  • Composer: Piccinni, Niccolò, 1728-1800
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Librettist: Marmontel, Jean François, 1723-1799
    Creator Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: Chez Boieldieu
    Place of Publication: Paris

Date

  • Creation: 1815
  • Digitized: 2009-03

Language

  • French

Description

  • Physical Description: score (307 p.) ; 34 cm.
  • Content Description: With Didon, Piccinni demonstrated his ability to combine both Italian and French styles to create a compelling tragédie lyrique. The opera includes lyrical Italian melodies and a second-act finale, as well as French choruses and numbers that transition continuously without pauses. Didon was premiered at Fountainebleau on 16 October 1783, and it remained one of Piccinni’s most popular French operas, with performances through the first part of the nineteenth century. The story of Dido had been realized on the operatic stage before Piccinni’s setting, including Cavalli’s Didone (1641), Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (c. 1689), and Vinci’s Didone abbandonata (1726) with a libretto by Metastasio.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Operas -- Scores.
  • Other: Tragédie lyrique

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Collection

  • Name: Virtual Music Rare Book Room
    Code: VRBR

Institution

  • Name: UNT Music Library
    Code: UNTML

Rights

  • Rights Access: public

Resource Type

  • Musical Score/Notation

Format

  • Image

Identifier

  • UNT Catalog No.: b1336358
  • OCLC: 27091319
  • RISM No.: RISM A/I, P 2105
  • Call Number: M1500.P58 D5 1815
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc33
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