My Jubilee or Fifty Years of artistic Life … With six Plates, and a Preface by Thomas Ward …

REEVES, John Sims.

Published by London The London Music Publishing Company, Limited and Simpkin, Marshall & Co., and Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1889

First edition. Sims Reeves (1818 1900) was one of the leading English tenors of the nineteenth century. He made his début at La Scala in 1846 as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor [featured in one of the plates here, opposite p. 74] and in 1847 he appeared as Zamoro in Verdi s Alzira. Returning to London in December that year he sang Edgardo at Drury Lane, where on 20 December 1847 he created the role of Lyonnel in Balfe s The Maid of Honour. In February 1848 he sang Faust in the first performance in England of Berlioz s La damnation de Faust under the composer. From 1848 he sang at Her Majesty s Theatre, first under Lumley s and then Mapleson s managements. In 1851 he was briefly engaged at the Théâtre Italien, Paris. In London he sang the title role in Faust in the opera s first performance in English in 1864, and Huon in the revival of Oberon in 1866. In 1848 he appeared at the Norwich Festival and sang in Handel s Messiah at the Sacred Harmonic Society, and thereafter he appeared regularly at the various choral festivals. He was particularly admired in Handel oratorios and for his performance of the Evangelist in Bach s St Matthew Passion, which he sang under Sterndale Bennett in 1862 … He made his formal farewell appearance at the Royal Albert Hall in 1891, but reappeared in a concert in 1893, and made a tour of South Africa in 1896 with his pupil Maud Richard, whom he had married the previous year (New Grove). 8vo (218 × 137 mm), pp. viii, 280, [4] advertisements; with a portrait frontispiece ( Printed by C. G. Röder, Leipzig , a well-known lithographic printer for music) and 6 plates; occasional light spotting; original publisher s decorated cloth, upper cover and spine lettered gilt; a little rubbed; inscribed Yours faithfully J. Sims Reeves 1890 on the verso of the frontispiece, to T. H. Peirce. Seller Inventory # ABE-1620221144259

Bibliographic Details

Title: My Jubilee or Fifty Years of artistic Life …...
Publisher: London The London Music Publishing Company, Limited and Simpkin, Marshall & Co., and Hamilton, Adams & Co.
Publication Date: 1889
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition