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Tarare : opéra en cinq actes avec un prologue

Description: Antonio Salieri’s French debut Les Danaïdes (1784) led to additional commissions, Les Horaces (1786) and Tarare (1787). Although Les Horaces was not well-received, Tarare was popular both in Paris and Vienna. Beaumarchais supplied the libretto for Tarare, basing his plot on the third volume of the exotic English collection The Tales of the Genii, or The Delightful Lessons of Horam, the Son of Asmar (1764) by James Ridley, (pseudonym for Sir Charles Morell), who claimed the stories were tran… more
Date: 1790
Creator: Salieri, Antonio, 1750-1825 & Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799
Partner: UNT Music Library

Partitione della Nina, osia, La pazza per amore

Description: Score for Giovanni Paisiello's opera Partitione della Nina, osia, La pazza per amore. A handwritten page in French is pasted onto one of the front end pages; there is no title page or other such identifying information. Listed as 1.78 in the Robinson thematic catalog, it premiered on June 25, 1789 at the Belvedere, S. Leucio (Caserta).
Date: 1790~
Creator: Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816
Partner: UNT Music Library

[Binder's Collection: Mrs. Phillips]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music from the collection of Thurman Morrison. An inscription on the page facing the inside front cover reads "Mrs. J.M. Phillips, Priory St."
Date: 1790/1830
Creator: Phillips, Mrs. J. M.
Partner: UNT Music Library
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