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| Id |
25655 |
| Category |
antiquarian music |
| Author / Composer |
PFEIFFER, Johann Michael (ca 1750-after 1800) |
| Title |
La Bambina al cembalo, o sia Metodo facile, e dilettevole in pratica per aprendere a ben Suonare, ed accompagnare sopra il Clavi-cembalo o forte piano. Seconda edizione. |
| Place |
In Venezia |
| Publisher |
presso Antonio Zatta, e figli |
| Publication Date |
[1790?] |
| ISBN / Plate No. |
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| Series |
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| Size |
Oblong folio. [iv (title, dedication)], 70pp. |
| Description |
Plain makeshift stiff covers (old paper tape reinforcements to backstrip, front cover detached), decoratively bordered manuscript title-label to front cover. Black ink stain to centre of upper margins throughout. Dedicated to Elisabetta Wynne with a medallion portrait of her. From the collection of Christopher Hogwood (1941-2014). Pfeiffer "undoubtedly lived in Venice for a time, since much of his music was published there under his own imprint. According to Fétis he lived in Mannheim around 1780 and later in London, and Eitner repeats Thayer's statement that he spent his last years in London. Pfeiffer composed in a variety of genres, notably keyboard duets, and some of his works appeared under several different publishers' imprints; this fact, together with the large number of extant copies, reflects their popularity during his lifetime. The keyboard sonata Il maestro e scolare was especially successful, as was the children's keyboard tutor La bambina al cembalo, which includes a divertimento with accompanying solo voice in the first two movements and violin in the finale. Pfeiffer may have been the composer of a number of symphonies attributed to Johann Pfeiffer, while some of his works have been misattributed to the later composer Michael Traugott Pfeiffer" (Grove Online). |
| Reference |
RISM B/VI/II p.649. Hirsch III.459. |
| Price |
£850.00 |
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