ROMANI, Pietro (1791-1877). Contemporary manuscript of the pianoforte reduction of the ballet L'Origine dei Guelfi e Ghibellini in Firenze o sia la Morte di Bon del Monte, entitled L'Origine dei Guelfi e Ghibellini o sia la Morte di Bon del Monte, Ballo, Posto in Scena dal Sig.re Antonio Landini nell' I.e. R. Teatro di Via della Pergola, Musica del Sig.re Pietro Romani, e dal medesimo ridotta, Per Piano-Forte, black ink, 85 pages, 10 staves per page, contemporary boards with paper oval onlay with title on front cover, 212 x 280mm., (some foxing). -- Contemporary manuscript of the pianoforte reduction of the ballet Cesare in Egitto, entitled Cesare in Egitto, Ballo in cinque Atti, ridotto per Piano Forte on a frontispiece with printed decorative border bearing the publisher's printed inscription In Firenze, Nel Magazzino, e Stamperia di Musica di Giuseppe Lorenzi, sulla Piazza di S: Lorenzo., black ink, 68 pages, 10 staves per page, contemporary boards with paper oval onlay with title on front cover, 211 x 280mm.Provenance: the Dukes of Genova (bookplates and library stamps). Pietro Romani was an esteemed composer, conductor and teacher and was for many years singing master at the Reale Istituto Musicale and conductor at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence. The present ballet is one of several that he wrote in addition to his operas Il qui pro quo of 1817 and Carlo Magno of 1823. He was a friend of Meyerbeer and Rossini for a performance of whose opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro della Pergola in 1816 he rewrote the aria Manca un foglio. We have been unable to identify the composer of the other ballet in this lot, Cesare in Egitto, but it may also have been composed by Romani for the Teatro della Pergola. The Lorenzi were a well known 19th-century Florentine publishing family. (2)

ROMANI, Pietro (1791-1877). Contemporary manuscript of the pianoforte reduction of the ballet L'Origine dei Guelfi e Ghibellini in Firenze o sia la Morte di Bon del Monte, entitled L'Origine dei Guelfi e Ghibellini o sia la Morte di Bon del Monte, Ballo, Posto in Scena dal Sig.re Antonio Landini nell' I.e. R. Teatro di Via della Pergola, Musica del Sig.re Pietro Romani, e dal medesimo ridotta, Per Piano-Forte, black ink, 85 pages, 10 staves per page, contemporary boards with paper oval onlay with title on front cover, 212 x 280mm., (some foxing). -- Contemporary manuscript of the pianoforte reduction of the ballet Cesare in Egitto, entitled Cesare in Egitto, Ballo in cinque Atti, ridotto per Piano Forte on a frontispiece with printed decorative border bearing the publisher's printed inscription In Firenze, Nel Magazzino, e Stamperia di Musica di Giuseppe Lorenzi, sulla Piazza di S: Lorenzo., black ink, 68 pages, 10 staves per page, contemporary boards with paper oval onlay with title on front cover, 211 x 280mm. Provenance: the Dukes of Genova (bookplates and library stamps). Pietro Romani was an esteemed composer, conductor and teacher and was for many years singing master at the Reale Istituto Musicale and conductor at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence. The present ballet is one of several that he wrote in addition to his operas Il qui pro quo of 1817 and Carlo Magno of 1823. He was a friend of Meyerbeer and Rossini for a performance of whose opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro della Pergola in 1816 he rewrote the aria Manca un foglio. We have been unable to identify the composer of the other ballet in this lot, Cesare in Egitto, but it may also have been composed by Romani for the Teatro della Pergola. The Lorenzi were a well known 19th-century Florentine publishing family. (2)

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ROMANI, Pietro (1791-1877). Contemporary manuscript of the pianoforte reduction of the ballet L'Origine dei Guelfi e Ghibellini in Firenze o sia la Morte di Bon del Monte, entitled L'Origine dei Guelfi e Ghibellini o sia la Morte di Bon del Monte, Ballo, Posto in Scena dal Sig.^r^e Antonio Landini nell' I.e. R. Teatro di Via della Pergola, Musica del Sig.^r^e Pietro Romani, e dal medesimo ridotta, Per Piano-Forte, black ink, 85 pages, 10 staves per page, contemporary boards with paper oval onlay with title on front cover, 212 x 280mm., (some foxing). -- Contemporary manuscript of the pianoforte reduction of the ballet Cesare in Egitto, entitled Cesare in Egitto, Ballo in cinque Atti, ridotto per Piano Forte on a frontispiece with printed decorative border bearing the publisher's printed inscription In Firenze, Nel Magazzino, e Stamperia di Musica di Giuseppe Lorenzi, sulla Piazza di S: Lorenzo., black ink, 68 pages, 10 staves per page, contemporary boards with paper oval onlay with title on front cover, 211 x 280mm.

Provenance: the Dukes of Genova (bookplates and library stamps).
Pietro Romani was an esteemed composer, conductor and teacher and was for many years singing master at the Reale Istituto Musicale and conductor at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence. The present ballet is one of several that he wrote in addition to his operas Il qui pro quo of 1817 and Carlo Magno of 1823. He was a friend of Meyerbeer and Rossini for a performance of whose opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro della Pergola in 1816 he rewrote the aria Manca un foglio.

We have been unable to identify the composer of the other ballet in this lot, Cesare in Egitto, but it may also have been composed by Romani for the Teatro della Pergola. The Lorenzi were a well known 19th-century Florentine publishing family. (2)