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[Reichardt, Johann Friedrich]--Juliane Pappritz (1767-1806, singer and second wife of C. F. Zelter) Manuscript volume containing transcriptions of six numbers from operas by Reichardt and Sarti, possibly in Pappritz's hand including three numbers from Reichardt's Andromeda, (the rondo "Bel morir soavi pene o che dolce sospirar!"; the scena "Misera me! giunto e l'estremo istante"; and the scena "Voi, sacre piante...Deh soccori, o Padre il figlio") and Protesilao (the scena "Caro sposo ove sei?"), and one from G. Sarti's Il trionfo della pace (the scena "Stelle che miro...Ah perché se mia tu sei"), with manuscript headings ("...Scena dell Opera Andromeda dell Sig Reichardt...Scena è Rondo Del Sig.r Giuseppe Sart Cantato Del Sig.r Gio;vni Rubinelli Per L'appertura del Nuovo T[e]atro di Mantova 1783"), written in brown ink in apparently one and the same hand, possibly that of Juliane Pappritz, mostly on a single system of between 10 and 12 staves per page, INCLUDING SOME WRITTEN-OUT VOCAL EMBELLISHMENTS, one apparently in another hand, with some cancellations and corrections, some possibly in other hands, one correction on a slip of paper and pinned to the score, a few leaves affixed together c. 140 pages, including a few blanks, various oblong 4to papers (c. 22.5 x 35cm), staves apparently hand-drawn with a single-headed rastrum, some pencil annotations, probably early C19th patterned papered boards, manuscript label to upper cover ("5 Scenen aus Opern von Joh. Friedrich Reichardt 1. dito von Joseph Sarti alle in Partitur...Julie Pappritz"), no place or date, [Berlin, and possibly elsewhere, 1780s or later?] some browning and staining, the individual items mostly trimmed, spine worn A remarkable discovery. The singer Juliane (Julie) Pappritz was the younger daughter of the Berlin finance minister Ludwig Friedrich Pappritz (1719-1782). In 1796 she married C. F. Zelter, whose first wife had died the year before. With her sister, Sidonie Voitus, she was a founding member of the Berlin Sing-Akademie, and assisted Zelter in his work with it. According to the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (1814), she had a voice "like an angel". Two Reichardt works represented here can be dated to Berlin in the 1780s: his Andromeda was first given there on 11 January 1788, and Protesilao (act I by Reichardt, act II by J. G. Naumann) on 26 January 1789. One number in the volume ("Inumano! tiranno é forse questo l'ultimo di che rimirarmi dei") is described as being from Reichardt's opera Didone abandonata, although no such work is listed in Grove. Sarti's opera Il trionfo della pace was given for the first time in Mantua on 10 May 1783. This volume provides potentially new information on the activities of Pappritz, and on the performance of Reichardt's operatic works in Berlin. LITERATUREAllgemeine musikalische Zeitung 16 (1814) 52 (28 December 1814) 880. PROVENANCEFrom the collection of Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916).