Tuesday 13 September 2011

L'Estasi - Valzer Brillante

SM.12  L'Estasi - Valzer Brillante
             Luigi Arditi [1822-1903]
             canto e pianoforte
             Edizioni Ricordi, Milano
             s.d. [1873]
            12pp
            Fr. 4.50
            a  40245  a,




     Cantato dalla Sign.a SINICO

The Ricordi printing house had by this time expanded and opened branches in Naples (1864), Florence (1865) and Rome (1871).
This beautiful frontispiece is protected by a plain outer cover. It is lithographed and probably hand-painted with initial lettering recalling old manuscripts.
This copy for pianoforte and voice is of moderate difficulty and would have been popular entertainment in the local nineteenth-century 'sala'.