marschan adolph (3 Ergebnisse)

Size: Folio. 7, 2pp. Folded as issued in publisher's printed pictorial title-wrappers.

First Edition. Good copy only in contemporary half maroon leather over marble boards, with surface loss to the marbled coverings on the bottom portion of both boards. Gilt-blocked titles and compartment decorations to spine with raised bands. Panel edges, spine bands and joints somewhat rubbed. Marbled edges, somewhat dust-dulled and faded. Binding starting to separate along the bottom in one location (before the first composition, "Home Sweet Home Polka"), but holding at the top. Text otherwise tight throughout, and clean with marginal dust-dulling only. An internally strong and very serviceable copy overall. Physical description; 1 volume in various paginations : music ; 35 cm. Notes; A bound collection of engraved sheet music for piano published in London c.1850-1875. Contains popular dances and operatic arrangements of the period, including: Madame Oury's 'Home sweet home' polka (with illustrated title page); Camille Schubert's quadrille 'Les joyeux enfants de Paris'; Rudolph Nordmann's piano duet arrangement of Donizetti's tyrolienne 'In questo semplice'; Adolph Marschan's 'Alpenlieder' waltz; Charles d'Albert's 'Faust' waltz for piano four-hands; and others. Subjects; Piano music - 19th century - Scores, Dance music - England - 19th century - Scores, Waltzes - Scores, Polkas - Scores, Quadrilles - Scores, Operas - Excerpts, Arranged - Scores, Sheet music - England - London - 19th century. 3 Kg.

Size: Oblong folio. [44] ff. Limp marbled covers (backstrip worn), title from paper label to front cover. Copyist's manuscript miscellany of piano music, written in black ink on eight stave hand-ruled paper. The works by Lanner, Johann Strauss the elder and one by Marschan, all appeared in print in the period 1831-1836.