Item #0081626 The Life of Haydn, in a series of Letters written at Vienna, followed by The Life of Mozart, with observations on Metastasio, and on the present state of Music in France and Italy. L. A. C. Bombet, Stendahl, Marie Henri Beyle.
The Life of Haydn, in a series of Letters written at Vienna, followed by The Life of Mozart, with observations on Metastasio, and on the present state of Music in France and Italy

The Life of Haydn, in a series of Letters written at Vienna, followed by The Life of Mozart, with observations on Metastasio, and on the present state of Music in France and Italy

Providence: Miller and Hutchins, 1820. First American edition. Hardcover. 1820, First American edition. 307 pp. Hardcover, rebound in green library buckram. Lacks the original blanks, prelims and half-title. Small ink stamp to title page; all of the other library markings appear on the blank endpapers. 2-inch closed snag to to the title page; moderate browning to the contents. Stendahl's first book, reputedly an amateurish rip-off of Carpani's Italian biography published less than 10 years earlier. Ex-Library. Item #0081626

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