Orfeo e Euridice. Dramma per Musica = Orpheus und Euridice. Klavierauszug - Haydn, Joseph 1732-1809 (Leipzig Breitkopf & Härtel, 1801)
L'Anima del filosofo ossia Orfeo ed Euridice' was supposed to premiere in London, in 1791
bilingual piano score
Part of a collection owned by Priscilla Anne Wellesley-Pole (1793-1879) who became Lady Burghersh, later Countess of Westmorland, who was from childhood associated with many of the great figures of the day. In 1811, at the age of eighteen, she married John Fane (=Lord Burghersh) one of the future Duke of Wellington's A. D. C.'s, and later 11th Earl of Westmorland and founder of the Royal Academy of Music in 1822. He was a great music lover who devoted most of his leisure hours to the study of music, was a good violinist and a prolific composer.
Bound in with Haydn’s ’Die Worte des Erlœsers am Kreuze’, Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ and Cherubini’s ‘Faniska’
Keywords: Orpheus; 18th Century (1701-1800); 19th Century (1801-1900); Opera seria; Mythology; Vienna (Austria)