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1762 ARIANA A NAXOS

HAYDN JOSEPH: (1732-1809) Austrian composer of the Classical period. A fine and rare printed musical score signed by Haydn, being the first British edition of Ariana a Naxos, Cantata a Voce Sola, accompagnata col Clavicembalo Forte-Piano, published by John Bland, London, n.d. (June 1791), the oblong folio score of eighteen pages ´printed for the Author & sold by him at No. 18 Great Pulteney Street, & at J. Blands Music Warehouse, 45 Holborn´. Signed (´Haydn´, with paraph manu propria) by the composer at the foot of the title page, which also bears the ownership signature of a Mrs. Rigby in the blank left margin.