[Op. 17, nos. 1-3]. Trois Airs Variés pour le Violon, avec accompagnement d'un second Violon, Alto, et Violoncelle, dediés à Monsieur Cipriano de Urbieta ... Oeuvre 17 No. 1 ... 2 ... 3 Prix f: 1,,20. [Parts]

Offenbach s/M: Jean André [PNs 2328, 2329, 2330], 1808. Folio. Disbound.

No. 1: Violino primo: [1] (title), [i] (blank), 3-7, [i] (blank) pp.; Violino secondo: [1] (blank), 2-3, [i] (blank) pp.; Viola: [1] (blank), 2-3, [i] (blank) pp.; Violoncello: [1] (blank), 2-3, [i] (blank) pp.

No. 2: Violino primo: [1] (title), [i] (blank), 3-7, [i] (blank) pp.; Violino secondo: [1] (blank), 2-3, [i] (blank) pp.; Viola: [1] (blank), 2-3, [i] (blank) pp.; Violoncello: [1] (blank), 2-3, [i] (blank) pp.

No. 3: Violino primo: [1] (title, with line added: "/: Flûte, Haut-Bois et 2 Bassons ad libitum:/"), [i] (blank), 3-7, [i] (blank) (truncated) pp.; Violino secondo: 2 pp.; Viola: 2 pp.; Basso: 2 pp.; Fagotti: 1, [i] (blank) pp. The two bassoon parts are notated as a score, on two staves.

Lithographed. With overpaste of Cianchettini & Sperati, London to all title pages.

Slightly foxed and somewhat crudely trimmed, with loss to headers and pagination of Violino primo parts; stains from labels to final blank page of Violino primo of no. 3; Flûte and Haut-Bois parts lacking. Constapel p. 164. Not in BUC. RISM R2226 (1 complete copy in the U.S. only, at the Newberry Library). WorldCat lists (an additional copy, incomplete, at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill).

The company of Cianchettini & Sperati existed from ca. 1807 to 1811 (see Humphries & Smith p. 104).

"Romberg's career as a violinist can hardly been separated from that of his cousin Bernhard... His symphonies, string quartets, and quintets with flute or clarinet are original and independent. Works in other genres... have been underestimated. Romberg's craftsmanship is evident not only in obligato writing but also in his mastery of strict counterpoint, which he uses against the prevailing trend of his time." Klaus G. Werner in MGG2.

An early lithographic imprint. (Inventory #: 25908)