{"id":1365,"date":"2012-01-05T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2012-01-05T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T20:45:09","slug":"newly-digitized-19th-century-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/2012\/01\/05\/newly-digitized-19th-century-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly Digitized: 19th-century Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year! In this group of digital scores, you’ll find operas from the first half of the 19th century, by Cherubini, Meyerbeer, and Spontini (as well as one early Donizetti libretto). Get these, and nearly 600 other scores, in our collection of Digital Scores and Libretti<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Luigi Cherubini, 1760-1842.<\/strong>
\n[Deux journ\u00e9es]<\/strong>
\nLes deux journ\u00e9es: op\u00e9ra en trois actes<\/a> \/ par le c.en Bouilly …; mis en musique par le c.en Ch\u00e9rubini. Paris: Gaveaux, rue St. Marc N. 10, [181-?].
\nMerritt Room Mus 637.1.675.2<\/p>\n

A full score of Cherubini’s popular rescue opera (see our earlier post<\/a> for a digitized copy of the vocal score). <\/p>\n

Guillaume Gaveaux (Gaveaux ainé) was one of a family of music publishers and merchants active in Paris between 1794 and 1832; the full imprint in this copy is covered by a label reading “Chez Mme. Duhan & Cie. … Boulvard Poissoniere No. 10.” One of a number of women in the Parisian music business, Jeanne-Elisabeth Duhan was also associated with manufacture and sale of early lithographed music printed by Louise-Gabrielle Vernay’s Imprimerie Lithographique.1<\/sup><\/p>\n

Gaspare Spontini, 1774-1851.<\/strong>
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