L'Art de se perfectionner dans le Violon; 3 Symphonies d'Hayden oeuvre 34; Chaconne de l'union de l'amour et des arts - Corrette, Michel 1707-1795; Haydn, Joseph 1732-1809; Floquet, Étienne-Joseph 1748-1785 (Paris Castagnery [Corrette], 1782)
Contains in addition to the print one page of manuscript notes about Corrette in the front and twenty pages of added music notation on different paper and in two different hands to the back.
Added manuscript score contains violin parts for three Haydn Symphonies and for a Chaconne from Floquet's 'L'Union de l'amour et des arts', next to some anonymous exercises.
Generic title-page engraving by Duvall and Herisset representing a seated violin player at a table, and a poem "J'exerce dans ma solitude" underneath. The original imprint on the title-page ["L'Auteur”] was pasted over with the imprint of Castagnery
Bulk of the print contains music notation for V.P. (first violin) and V.S. (second violin) mainly by Italian by composers such as Vivaldi, Rasetti, Corelli, Geminiani, Locatelli, dell'Abaco, Albinoni, Veracini, Tartini and others. Music for violin and basso continuo from p. 59 onwards.
A previous owner of the book, possibly Sauvageot, noted above the title page: "tout ce qui est de l'auteur dans cet ouvrage, esy d'une niaiserie parfaite" ("all that is of the author in this work, is of a perfect silliness")
Digitized by iGuana, Spring 2022
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