{"id":2496,"date":"2018-01-02T12:47:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T17:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2022-07-05T09:09:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T13:09:23","slug":"the-secret-garden-of-pierre-berge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/2018\/01\/02\/the-secret-garden-of-pierre-berge\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret garden of Pierre Berg\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Loeb Music Library has just acquired three items previously owned by the French industrialist, arts patron and AIDS activist Pierre Berg\u00e9 (1930-2017)<\/a>. A co-founder of the fashion house Yves Saint Laurent, Berg\u00e9 cultivated a \u201cjardin secret\u201d all his life, accumulating important rare books and scores as well as Impressionist paintings, Old Master drawings and decorative ceramics.<\/p>\n

Here is a very rare first issue of the first edition of Mozart’s six Opus 3 trio sonatas<\/a>, published in 1764. It was “<\/span>Printed for the author and sold at his lodgings,” the house in Soho<\/a><\/span>\u00a0where eight-year-old Wolfgang Mozart, his sister Nannerl and their father Leopold resided during the London period of their \u00a0European tour. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Merritt Mus 745.1.383.1<\/p><\/div>\n

Bound in are several items accumulated by owners prior to Berg\u00e9, including a note detailing the purchase history by the original owner, Thomas Jones (“It was of the little musician himself I purchased this book”), several newspaper items, and a portrait of the Mozart family.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>

Merritt Mus 745.1.383.1<\/p><\/div>\n

\"A<\/a>

Merritt Mus 745.1.383.1<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Mozart<\/a>

Merritt Mus 745.1.383.1<\/p><\/div>\n

This item was acquired by the Schafer Mozart Book Fund. Images of the entire score will soon be available online.<\/del> are now available online<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And there are two collections of early trio sonatas by Arcangelo Corelli, printed in Bologna in 1688<\/a> and in Venice in 1691.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Merritt Mus 640.2.383.15<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Two<\/a>

Merritt Mus 640.2.383.15 and Merritt Mus 640.2.373.5<\/p><\/div>\n

Like the rest of Pierre Berg\u00e9’s library<\/a>, all three of these scores are exquisitely housed. The Mozart sonatas were bound in rich green morocco leather with gilt edges by the Victorian bookbinding company Blunson & Company, of whose work Harvard Library possesses two<\/a> other<\/a>\u00a0equally magnificent examples. The Corelli scores were recently given pale lilac portfolios which slide into matching slipcases, an enclosure designed by Atelier de Libraire, a family firm in Paris. And all three of these items contain Berg\u00e9’s simple, elegant bookplate. These, too, are available in digital form<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Merritt Mus 745.1.383.1<\/p><\/div>\n

Merritt Room collections are available for use on site by anyone with a Special Collections Request Account. Please place your request by clicking View Onsite in HOLLIS, then wait to hear from Isham Memorial Library staff before planning your visit.<\/span><\/p>\n

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