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Book/Printed Material Orfeo. Libretto. German

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Title

  • Orfeo. Libretto. German

Names

  • Sartorio, Antonio, -- 1630?-1681
  • Aureli, Aurelio, -- -1708 (librettist)

Created / Published

  • Gedruckt durch Christoph Friedrich Zilligern, Braunschweig, 1690, monographic.

Headings

  • -  Operas -- Librettos
  • -  Orpheus
  • -  Eurydice
  • -  Aristeus
  • -  Autonoe
  • -  Chiron
  • -  Hercules
  • -  Achilles
  • -  Aesculapius
  • -  Erinda
  • -  Orillo
  • -  Apollo
  • -  Bacchus
  • -  Pluto
  • -  Thetys

Notes

  • -  U.S. RISM Libretto Project.
  • -  Three acts; pages unnumbered throughout; bookplate of Johann Kristof Lorber with motto "Was der Welt ist, werf'ich hin, Nach dem Himmel steht mein Sinn" in 4 additional languages affixed to p. [2] (opposite title page); scene descriptions--p. [6]; "Vorspiel [:] Apollo ... und die zwölff Stunden"--p. [8]-[11]; p. [67]-[68] in manuscript.
  • -  A German translation of Antonio Sartorio's Orfeo was published in association with a performance of the work (in Italian) at Brunswick in August 1690--Loewenberg.
  • -  "Däntze[:] der zwölff Stunden; der trunkenen Schäfer; der Schäfer und Nymfen; der Satyren und Bacchantinen; der Furien; der rasenden Bacchantinnen; der glükkseeligen Seelen in den Elysichen Feldern; der Tritonen in dem Meer; der Schüler des Chirons"--p. [7].
  • -  Performance: Braunschweig, Schauplatz, 1690. (venue)

Form

  • print

Extent

  • [148] p. ; 16 cm.

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2010666207

LC Classification

  • ML48 [S9484]

Online Format

  • image

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Sartorio, Antonio, and Aurelio Aureli. Orfeo. Libretto. German. Gedruckt durch Christoph Friedrich Zilligern, Braunschweig, monographic, 1690. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/2010666207/.

APA citation style:

Sartorio, A. & Aureli, A. (1690) Orfeo. Libretto. German. Gedruckt durch Christoph Friedrich Zilligern, Braunschweig, monographic. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2010666207/.

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Sartorio, Antonio, and Aurelio Aureli. Orfeo. Libretto. German. Gedruckt durch Christoph Friedrich Zilligern, Braunschweig, monographic, 1690. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2010666207/>.