Guillaume Tell Opéra en quatre actes paroles de M.M. Jouy & Hypolite Bis ... avec Accompagnemt. de Piano par L. Niedermeyer Tell, Oper in vier Acten ... Vollstaendiger Clavier-Auszug, nach der Original-Partitur, mit franzoesischem Text, und freier teutscher Bearbeitung von Th. v. Haupt. unterlegt von Jos. Panny, No. 3173. Pr. [blank] Original - Auflage Mit Privilegen. 1829. [Piano-vocal score]

Mainz und Antwerpen: B. Schott's Söhnen. [PNs 3173, 3173.1-3173.21], 1829. Folio. Half contemporary dark green morocco with green textured paper boards with titling to upper "Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles Mr . Ferdinand Junghmans 2me Prix de Chant 1846" gilt. 1f. (title), [1] (cast list and table of contents), 2-410 pp. Title lithographed. Cast list, table of contents, and music engraved. Text in French and German.

Binding quite worn, rubbed, and bumped. Some soiling to margins; some leaves with light to moderate foxing and small tears to outer margins, not affecting music; some offsetting to final leaves. First German Edition (truncated) of the first version, published just months after the first edition. Gossett, p. 523.

Guillaume Tell, to a libretto by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis based on Friedrich von Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell, was first performed in Paris at the Opéra on 3 August 1829.

"Guillaume Tell, Rossini’s last opera, is the new grand opéra he had been contracted to write under the terms of the agreement with the French government drawn up in 1824 at the time of his arrival as a resident in Paris ... The choice of Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell (1804) was both adventurous and shrewd. Whether or not Rossini intended this to be his last opera, it brings together elements of his art he had successfully developed over the previous 17 years. Schiller’s original play engages themes in which the mature Rossini showed a special interest: among them, the political ideals of a conservative people who seek independence with peace, and the psychology of paternal relations. It also enabled Rossini to exploit further an underlying interest in the related genres of folk music, pastoral, and the picturesque." Richard Osborne in Grove Music Online. (Inventory #: 25909)