Faniska (italienisch und deutsch) Eine Oper in drei Akten Im Klavieraufzug von Bierey - Cherubini, Luigi 1760-1842; Sonnleithner, Joseph Ferdinand 1766-1835; Bierey, Gottlob Benedict 1772-1840 (Leipzig Breitkopf & Härtel)
Part of a collection owned by Priscilla Anne Wellesley-Pole (1793-1879) who became Lady Burghersh, later Countess of Westmorland, who was from childhood associated with many of the great figures of the day. In 1811, at the age of eighteen, she married John Fane (=Lord Burghersh) one of the future Duke of Wellington's A. D. C.'s, and later 11th Earl of Westmorland and founder of the Royal Academy of Music in 1822. He was a great music lover who devoted most of his leisure hours to the study of music, was a good violinist and a prolific composer.
music complete, but pagination starts at 5, suggesting missing index and/or introduction
Cherubini's opera eroica Faniska was first performed at the Theater am Kärntnertor, Vienna, on 25 February 1806. It was enthusiastically received by Beethoven and Haydn but failed to win a lasting place in the repertoire.
Libretto based on Les mines de Pologne by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixerécourt
Bound in with Haydn’s ’Die Worte des Erlœsers am Kreuze’ and ‘Orfeo e Euridice’ and Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’
Keywords: 19th Century (1801-1900); Opera; Arrangement