Six Trios a Deux Violons et Basse Dedié au Celébre Monsieur Pugnani Sur Intendent de la Musique de Sa Majeste le Roy de Sardaigne ... Œuvre 2 ... Prix 9₶. [Set of parts]

Paris: Chez le Sr. Sieber Musicien rue St. Honoré vis-a-vis l'hôtel L'Aligre Chez l'Apothicaire No. 92 A. P. D. P., 1787. Folio. Dark blue wrappers with decorative cut-paper labels titled in manuscript to uppers. Engraved.

Scored for two violins and unspecified bass instrument.

Violino primo: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (publisher's catalogue "de Musique Vocale et Instrumentale a Mons. Sieber Rue St. Honore entre la Rue des Vielles Etuves et celle d'Orléans chez l'Apothicaire. No. 92"), 2-23, [i] (blank) pp.
Violino secondo: [i] (title), 2-12, [i] (blank), 14-17, [i] (blank) pp.
Basso: [i] (title), 2-15, [i] (blank) pp.

With small oval handstamp "C. Michel" in red ink to lower outer corner of publisher's catalogue and titles.

Several contemporary manuscript annotations to final page of music of basso part, cancelling some slurs and adding others.

Titles and final blank pages of each part soiled and stained; title of violino primo part laid down to backing leaf, with minor loss to blank margins; some corners repaired; minor repairs to other parts. First Edition. Giazotto 19-24. Lesure p. 635. Devriès and Lesure I, p. 144. RISM V1900 and VV1900 (2 copies in the U.S. only, at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and the Eastman School of Music's Sibley Library).

Viotti, an Italian violinist and composer, "was the most influential violinist between Tartini and Paganini and the last great representative of the Italian tradition stemming from Corelli. He is considered the founder of the 'modern' (19th-century) French school of violin playing, and his compositions, among the finest examples of Classical violin music, exerted a strong influence on 19th-century violin style." Chappell White, revised by Warwick Lister in Grove Music Online.