[First American edition of the Marseillaise] [Bound Volume of American Sheet Music including the Marseillaise and 30 other mostly American music sheets from the late 18th century and early 19th century]
Published by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle - Benjamin Carr, 1790
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Seller: Barry Lawrence Ruderman, La Jolla, CA, U.S.A.Barry Lawrence Ruderman
AbeBooks seller since August 31, 2022
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 11,205.13
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The First American Printing of the Marseillaise.In a Volume of Early American Sheet Music from the 1790s and early 1800s: The Beginnings of American Popular Music.This wonderful and extensive bound collect. Large quarto. Early 19th-century half sheep and marbled boards. Morocco label on front board, with gilt-stamped ownership name of E. G. Clarke. Boards worn, binding edges frayed. Spine leather rubbed and chipped. Occasional soiling to the leaves, some offsetting and minor foxing. A few tears, often in the gutter margin of some of the sheets. Old stains to lower margins of last few leaves. Overall mostly clean and nice internally, especially considering the heavy use generally heavy use suffered by sheet music. 164 pages (numbered in an early manuscript hand) plus nine additional loose music sheets laid in (details below). The First American Printing of the Marseillaise.In a Volume of Early American Sheet Music from the 1790s and early 1800s: The Beginnings of American Popular Music.This wonderful and extensive bound collection of mostly American sheet music (see below for a complete inventory), includes the first American edition of the Marseillaise, with the words in English and French, published in 1793 by Benjamin Carr & Co. of Philadelphia. La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, was written in April 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, and was officially adopted as the national anthem in 1795 by the French National Convention. Originally titled Chant de Guerre Pour l'Armee du Rhin (War Song of the Rhine Army) the song got its moniker after volunteers in a battalion from Marseille sung it while marching to Paris. By September of 1792 it had acquired the name Hymne des Marseillaise. Soon thereafter London publishers issued it as The Marseilles March. The very rare first American publication of the music and words of the Marseillaise contained in the present volume was published by Benjamin Carr (1768-1831), who left England in 1793 to establish his music shop at 136 High Street in Philadelphia. His father Joseph Carr soon joined him in America, as did a brother named Thomas, opening a music establishment in Baltimore. Late in the same year (1793) of his establishment in Philadelphia, Benjamin Carr must have copied one of the London versions to produce his own Marseilles Hymn or Marche des Marseillois. Both Carr's and the London versions share the same keyboard arrangements. Carr also retained the original French verses, which appear on the third sheet following the main English adaptation. Interestingly, Carr's also published the first printing of the words and music of the Star Spangled Banner (Baltimore, 1814), a copy of which sold at Christie's in 2010 for $506,500.Despite Jeremy Bentham calling it "the war whoop of anarchy," the Marseillaise has had a wide-ranging cultural impact far beyond the borders of France. Composers from Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky to Debussy and Lennon and McCartney have quoted it in their own work. And the special relationship between France and the United States, specifically the political and social background underpinning both the American Revolution and the French Revolution, contribute greatly to the interest of the first American appearance of the Marseillaise.Myron Gray's recent work, French Revolutionary Song for Federal Philadelphia discusses how the pioneering music publisher Benjamin Carr reconciled French Revolutionary music for the Philadelphia market at a controversial moment in Franco-American relations:For Carr, whose elite, music-reading clients were often conservative, the publication of radical French songs was, on the face of it, a risky venture. Gray argues that Carr softened the radicalism of French revolutionary.…
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- Title
- [First American edition of the Marseillaise] [Bound Volume of American Sheet Music including the Marseillaise and 30 other mostly American music sheets from the late 18th century and early 19th century]
- Author
- Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle - Benjamin Carr
- Publisher
- Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle - Benjamin Carr
- Publication year
- 1790
- Condition
- vg
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
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Barry Lawrence Ruderman
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