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Music - HAHN (Reynaldo). Venezia. Songs in Venetian dialect. Paris, Heugel & Cie, Milan, Sonzogno, sd [1901]. In-4 paperback, illustrated cover. [3] ff. including title illustrated with a view of Venice, table and lexicon (advice on Italian pronunciation), 31 pp. of score (piano and vocals). Texts by Pietro Pagello "Sopra l'acqua indormenzada" (Venetian doctor (1807 -1898) ; most famous for having been George Sand's lover during her stay with Alfred de Musset in 1834, which explains the original dedication "to Georgio Sand"), Pietro Buratti "La Barcheta" and "L'avertimento" (Venetian satirical poet, anti-Austrian), Antonio Lamberti "Biondina in gondoleta", Francesco dall'Ongaro "Che pecà!"(1808-1873, playwright, author of the very popular Fornaretto di Venezia in 1846), Alvise Cicogna "La Primavera". Reynaldo Hahn had met Marcel Proust in Venice in March 1900. Together they went on an excursion to Padua, before staying in the small spa town of Battaglia Terme, where Hahn finished two of these six melodies (Che pecà! and La Primavera) in June 1900. Five of the six melodies are dedicated to friends who accompanied the composer on his Venetian sojourn, including celebrities such as the Comtesse de Guerne (née Ségur), Ernesta Stern and Prince Giovanni Borghese, as well as Italian composer Paolo Tosti and opera singer Emma Calvé. Some foxing and marginal microtears on the cover, otherwise a very good copy with an E.A.S. from R. Hahn to Madame Alphonse DAUDET (Julia Allard, 1844-1940), La Roche, 1919.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR