[Autograph signed manuscript] 'Mi lagnerò tacendo'.

Rossini (Gioacchino)

Editore: 30th April, 1831

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4 systems of 3 staves, 17 bars in total, marked for 'Canto' and 'Piano Forte', ink on paper, two oblong leaves conjoined to form a single portrait page, signed and dated 'G. Rossini / Paris a 30 Avril 1834', edges slightly browned, faint mottling [with] lithographed portrait after W. Dreser, manuscript page, 14.5 x 30.4cm; portrait 23.3 x 28.6cm; framed and glazed together, 59.5 x 42cm, 'Mi lagnerò tacendo / della mia sorte amara, ah! /Ma ch'io non t'ami / o cara, non lo sperar da me.' Rossini set Pietro Metastasio's 'Mi lagnerò tacendo' as Il Rimprovero in Les Soirées Musicales (1830-1835), one of the first works he wrote following his retirement from opera. He subsequently set the text over 50 times, sometimes in the form of full-blown songs, often, as here, as miniature album pieces. One short setting was included in his Péchés de vieillesse collection (1857-1868), while varying manuscript versions are held by the British Library (1830), Harvard (1852) and the Morgan Library (1860). In the midst of his opera-writing career, the composer would tend to compose strictly for a libretto, but in his later years, when developing a musical idea, the text became a fall-back syllabic pattern, largely devoid of semantic purpose. The tone, for example, of this setting from 1834, his final year in Paris, in G major with a 2/4 time signature, a rising-falling vocal phrase repeated over modulating piano chords, followed by a 4-bar mini cadenza, marked for repetition, and a final coda, is light and playful. (Reto Müller, Péchés de vieillesse: Chamber Music and Rarities, Vol. 2, Naxos, 2018; Richard Stokes, Péchés de vieillesse, Vol, 13, Hyperion, 2008). Codice articolo 69811

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Titolo: [Autograph signed manuscript] 'Mi lagnerò ...

Casa editrice: 30th April

Data di pubblicazione: 1831